Quotes About Multiplicity

Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages? August said. And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving a Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have more ways to say it?

Las notas musicales son sólo cinco, pero sus melodías son tan numerosas que no podemos oírlas todas. Los colores primarios son sólo cinco, pero sus combinaciones son tan infinitas que no podemos verlas todas. Los gustos son sólo cinco, pero sus mezclas son tan variadas que no podemos saborearlas todas.

How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.

An argument can be made—a rigorous, persuasive argument—that every good new thing results from a teeming complexity.

In Krons Kopf hatten sich die verschiedenen Versionen seiner selbst über die Jahre zu einer leidlich friedlichen Gruppe versammelt. Der sechzehnjährige Kron lebte genauso weiter wie der fünfunddreißig-; sechzig- und siebzigjährige. Sie saßen beisammen, schwiegen oder unterhielten sich. [...] Kron war nicht älter, sondern zahlreicher geworden.

Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't write a different one with gravity in it.

Roles are extremely finite, but human beings are infinite.

El perspectivismo, que Cervantes contribuyó a inaugurar en la novela, es un procedimiento narrativo gracias al cual una misma y sola realidad es abordada desde distintos puntos de vista, según los diversos personajes, lo que resulta no tanto en versiones diferentes de la realidad como, de hecho, en varias "realidades

It brings us to a confrontation with that important perception of Finnegans Wake, that its apparent sense of affirmation, plurality, and multiplicity shades into or hides a stronger idea of nullity. From the infinitely meaningful, universally affirming, it is a short step to the opposite, to indifference, to voids of meaning and value.

Three rabbits, two cats, three parakeets, a dove, two parrots, three turkeys, two geese, a canary, and nine ducks at last count were just about what Noah had started with, and he never brought his animals into the house.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

A circle that has many centers but no circumference

My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers, a freakishly big double-pawed tomcat who regularly left dead rabbits on the front doorstep, and 70 white mice that one or another of us had smuggled home from my father's research laboratory.

If you think about computing, there isn't just one way to compute, just like there's not just one way to move around. You can have shoes, you can have a car, you can have a bicycle, submarine, rocket, plane, train, glider, whatever. Because you have one doesn't mean you get rid of another one... But PCs continue to be important.

Then if it is impossible both for things unlike to be like and for like things to be unlike, then it's also impossible for there to be many things? For if there were many things, they would incur impossibilities.

What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.

The cementing factor of this unity in multiplicity is Love.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.