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Quotes About Multiplicity

To think that there's one version of a man is ridiculous.
~ Riley Stearns
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
~ Richard Rohr
Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they're not just one thing, they're bigger than just their identity.
~ Nahnatchka Khan
variety is life; uniformity is death
~ Peter Kropotkin
Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.
~ Peter Redgrove
Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there's only one of us in the room, we're still a token; we don't actually have an empowered voice. If there's two of us, we're still a minority. If there's three, then we're allowed to have a multiplicity of opinions.
~ Kerry Washington
I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!
~ Richard LaGravenese
The seed of everything is in everything else.
~ Anaxagoras
Kane and Glenn Jacobs are two separate entities, you know.
~ Kane
There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.
~ Jessica Capshaw
History adds that before or after he died, he discovered himself standing before God, and said to Him: I, who have been so many men in vain, wish to be one, to be myself. God's voice answered him out of a whirlwind: I, too, am not I; I dreamed the world as you, Shakespeare, dreamed your own work and among the forms of my dream are you, who like me are many, yet no one.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
while we sleep here, we are awake elsewhere and that in this way every man is two men.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Otra, que mientras dormimos aquí, estamos despiertos en otro lado y que así cada hombre es dos hombres.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Cada uno de nosotros es, sucesivamente, no uno, sino muchos. Y estas personalidades sucesivas, que emergen las unas de las otras, suelen ofrecer entre si los mas raros y asombrosos contrastes.
~ Jose Enrique Rodo
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A horse gives way to another horse and then suddenly there are two horses, just like that. That's how I loved you.
~ Ada Limón
For every great idea, the opposite idea is also true.
~ Adam Kahane
Flight is a good trick, and has evolved repeatedly in distantly related creatures, but it has also evolved many times over within the same groups of creatures.
~ Adam Rutherford
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
~ Plato
The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.
~ R. Scott Bakker
In life the one becomes many. In death the many become one.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
On death the many become one, in life the one becomes many.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realising within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
~ P. Chidambaram