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Quotes About Multiplicity

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
~ Gertrude Stein
There is never only one Truth. There is only one truth at a time.
~ Gina Frangello
It is then unnecessary to investigate whether there be beyond the heaven Space, Void or Time. For there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, possibility, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit. In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.
~ Giordano Bruno
Câte vieÅ£i sunt într-o via??, câÅ£i oameni într-un om.
~ Giovanni Papini
By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.
~ Glenn Beck
the face of God can be seen from a thousand different angles?
~ Glenn Meade
Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
~ Gloria Steinem
What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.
~ Gloria Steinem
Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.
~ James Allen
My chin - I've got another one underneath the first one.
~ Roger Allam
Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
~ Compton Gage
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
~ Sylvia Plath
We all have different aspects of ourselves, and who we are to different people in our lives, at different stages of our lives.
~ Lulu Wang
As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.
~ Jean Pigozzi
The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
~ Ken Olsen
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.
~ Elmore Leonard
There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
~ Carl Sandburg
I answer that, The truth of this question is quite clear if we consider the divine simplicity. For it was shown above (Q[3], A[3]) that the divine simplicity requires that in God essence is the same as "suppositum," which in intellectual substances is nothing else than person. But a difficulty seems to arise from the fact that while the divine persons are multiplied, the essence nevertheless retains its unity.
~ Thomas Aquinas
There are nearly 7 billion people on this planet, so there are a lot of characters to play.
~ Erika Christensen
Human beings are millions of things in one day.
~ Nick Hornby
Only one woman exists in this world, one woman with countless faces.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
The guy I'm thinking of doesn't really look like me-not exactly. It's more that he looks like…like everyone…and no one…all at the same time. It's as if he let go of his true self…so he could play any part…be whomever someone else most desired him to be. I don't see how that could make anyone very happy.
~ CLAMP