Quotes About Multiplicity

Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.

The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

When Tim and I first discussed the part in 2003, he told me, 'I'd love for you to play five Oompas.' But five Oompas quickly turned into 165 - and they're not computerized; I did each one individually myself.

India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes.

India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes. India defies understanding

Una única experiencia no es representativa de todas las demás.

To rely on a single model is hubris.

Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

I am tired from having lived seventeen different lives, compressed into the space of one.

Motion, according to him, is an illusion, because we can demonstrate that it does not actually exist; the same for the multiplicity of existing things, which are in his logic, a single being, infinite, eternal, unchangeable. Like Heraclitus, Parmenides too, had his radical disciple, named Zeno. The latter had the habit of telling two stories to prove the inexistence of motion.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

Life is not meant to follow a pattern. Every moment has a multitude of realms.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

There are at least three ways of making associations more tractable. 1. Imposing a traversal direction 2. Adding a qualifier, effectively reducing multiplicity 3. Eliminating nonessential associations

Abraham, Jacob, or even Moses produces a more concrete, direct, and historical impression than the figures of the Homeric world—not because they are better described in terms of sense (the contrary is the case) but because the confused, contradictory multiplicity of events, the psychological and factual cross-purposes, which true history reveals, have not disappeared in the representation but still remain clearly perceptible.

She found she had become two different people. Each one spoke differently, dressed differently, and ate different things, laughed at different jokes, had different interests. If one had met the other, they probably wouldn't have liked each other.

What normally felt like the only possible world became one among many