But what is this “nothing”? Is it only an accident that we speak like that quite naturally? Is it only a manner of speaking—and nothing more?
— Martin Heidegger, ‘What is Metaphysics?’ (trans. R. F. C. Hull & A. Clark) in Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (ed. W. Kaufman), 2004, Plume, 244
