I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.
I do not presuppose myself, because I am every moment just positing or creating myself, and am I only by being not presupposed but posited, and ... only in the moment when I posit myself; that is, I am creator and creature in one. The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)