Quotes About Multiplicity

There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

Sylvie did not want to lose me. She did not want me to grow gigantic and multiple, so that I seemed to fill the whole house, and she did not wish me to turn subtle and miscible, so that I could pass through the membranes that separate dream and dream. She did not wish to remember me. She much preferred my simple, ordinary presence, silent and ungainly though I might be

Each one of us is, successively, not one but many. And these successive personalities that emerge one from the other tend to present the strangest, most astonishing contrasts among themselves. —José Enrique Rodó, Motives of Proteus

To have a sense of the profound unity of things is to have a sense of anarchy, -and of the effort required to reduce things while restoring them to unity. Whoever has the sense of unity also has the sense of the multiplicity of things, of that dust of appearances through which one must pass in order to reduce and destroy them.

it seems impossible for all things to be one.

The first set make the underlying body one—either one of the three5 or something else which is denser than fire and rarer than air—then generate everything else from this, (15) and obtain multiplicity by condensation and rarefaction. Now these are contraries, which may be generalized into 'excess and defect'.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe; that was almost an article of faith among scientists.

Eleven kids from three wives, may no harm come to them, is nothing to sneeze at!

Lo maravilloso del mundo reposa precisamente en esta multiplicidad de las posibilidades: lástima que sea un terreno tan poco sólido para conocernos a nosotros mismos.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.

Puns are at their core defined by multiplicity of meaning, not necessarily humor. The common expectation that puns should always be funny, or die in the attempt, is a relatively modern development.

A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.

We have annexed the future into the present, as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us. Options multiply around us, and we live in an almost infantile world where any demand, any possibility, whether for life-styles, travel, sexual roles and identities, can be satisfied instantly.

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

I refer to myself as 'we.'

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

Art is a reminder that you actually do contain multitudes--and that's OK.

Who am I? Everybody. As Whitman said: "I am large, I contain multitudes." Individuals within that multitude are always flickering on and off within me, stepping forward, then receding. And these individuals resemble the individuals who flicker on and off within you. This is the idea on which fiction is built.