Quotes About Multiplicity

It's true,' he said, 'I have never believed in single answers, never believed in this…this divisive clash of singularity. Power may have ten thousand faces, but the look in the eyes of every one of them is the same.' He glanced over to see Scillara and Felisin staring at him. 'There's no difference,' he said, 'between speaking aloud or in one's own head – either way, no-one listens.

I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness.

There are too many souls in the world for any one of us to have the luxury of being unique.

Your magic is not the only kind.

How many personalities resided in a single body? Was it possible all aspects of a person could be real?

For in this country, which of all civilizations has been devoted to the most exquisite consideration of the interior life—of the form, structure, and purpose of the self—we are individually multiple, severally alone.

I don't think there's ever a silver bullet to any problem. There are always several answers and solutions to a problem.

Break my mirror-heart into a thousand pieces my beloved, so that to the world i may proudly flaunt your thousand reflections

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

The genius of life is its variety.

If I take dust in my hand and ask you if that is all the dust there is, you will answer that dust is everywhere on earth. More specks than can ever be numbered. So I can give you a handful of truth only. Besides this there are other truths. More than can ever be numbered.

Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique.

Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.

I think I'm a million different faces.

I will come again, and I will be millions.

we all live at least three different lives, a real one, an imaginary one, and one we are not even aware of ...

For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once declared, though not to her, that on one occasion he had noticed himself to be possessed by five distinct infatuations at the same time. If this were true, his differed from the highest affection as the lower orders of the animal world differ from advanced organisms, partition causing not death but a multiplied existence.

A wise professor once reminded her graduate students in psychology that "there is more variation within a group than between groups.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.

These passages show that the principles into which the world-creator divides himself are themselves divided. They were at first contained in Prajapati, as is clear from the following: Prajapati desired: I wish to be many, I will multiply myself. Then he meditated silently in his Mind, and what was in his Mind became brihat (song). He bethought himself: This embryo of me is hidden in my body, through Speech I will bring it forth. Then he created Speech.

Woe unto you, for you have substituted the oneness of god for the diversity which cannot be resolved into the one.