Quotes About Multiplicity

All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

I have so many different role models who have taught me so many different things at so many different points in my life, it doesn't feel like I have one person that I have to live up to.

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.

overload. Too much, too much, too much! Why were there so many alternatives? So many different outcomes to be considered?

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.  

57 Varieties.

In that day seven women shall take hold of one man.

What are they among so many?

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

Everything depends on the point of view and is rich in varying aspects. A picture is sublime from one corner of the room, a daub from another; a woman's full face may be perfect, her profile a disappointment; above all, what you admire in yourself becomes highly distasteful in your neighbor. The moral is, I suppose, Tolerance; or if not that, something else which has escaped me.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.

I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.

No soy más que un conjunto de muchas personas diferentes, todas ellas muy sencillas.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind.

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

Many mickles make a muckle.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but them it wouldn't be half so interesting.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. … If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

I have always thought that Darwin was wrong: his theory doesn't account for all this variety of species. It hasn't the necessary multiplicity. Nowadays some people are fond of saying that at last evolution has produced a species that is able to understand the whole process which gave it birth. Now that you can't say. [Drury, Conversation with Wittgenstein, p174]

Nowhere! It is merely to show you that one is born to life in many forms, in many shapes, as tree, or as stone, as water, as butterfly, or as woman. So one may also be born a character in a play.