Quotes About Multiplicity

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

Our fate is to become one, and yet many— This is not prophecy, but description.

What Einstein demonstrated in physics is equally true of all other aspects of the cosmos: all reality is relative. Each reality is true only within given limits. It is only one possible version of the way things are. There are always multiple versions of reality. To awaken from any single reality is to recognize its relative nature. Meditation is a device to do just that.

Twenty men crossing a bridge,Into a village,Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,Into twenty villages,Or one manCrossing a single bridge into a village.

I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds.

Everything is octopusied.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

you sat breeding multiple & varied as a ghost

When you make yourself interdependent with other people in this way, as Jacob told his offspring to be, there's no stopping you. Each of you can do something, but together all of you can do everything.

Two heads are twice as good as half many.

The multiplicity of desires leads to a multiplicity of paths to God.

There is absolutely nothing like love for showing how many different people can live inside one skin.

You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' 'But sir,' it squealed, 'I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...' 'Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction a delta springing from the riverbed with its five fingers spread

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both.

There are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.

If Jesus were to ask me, as He did that poor demoniac in the Gospel: "What is your name?" I too would have to reply: "My name is legion, for there are many of us" (Mk 5:9). There are as many of us as there are desires, plans and regrets which we harbor, each one different from and contrary to others which pull us in opposite directions. They literally dis-tract us, drag us apart.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

In an infinite universe, all things are not only possible but, no matter how improbable, certain to exist somewhere at some time.

Spiderwebs are images of the nonlinear, of the many directions in which something might go, the many sources for it[.]