Quotes About Multiplicity

What about everybody else Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?'[...] 'How many lives Richard?'[...]'One.'.

Rien n'est jamais clair car nous disposons tous d'un éventail de moi parmi lesquels choisir.

Yo, múltiple, como en contradicción

the novel has almost as many forms as there are forms of love and sex.

A tale can start in many ways. Thus, it is many tales, and at the same time each of these is but one way of telling the same story.

you yourself were split into several parts. Just as I had a double existence, you did too. If I was another person wearing a stranger's mask, you were another person wearing the mask of yourself. Another wearing the mask of himself … a gruesome combination.…

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

There is never only ONE of anything in nature.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

...suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.