Quotes About Multiplicity

I am not one and simple, but complex and many.

For nothing was simply one thing.

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing

She had, it seems, no difficulty in sustaining the different parts, for her sex changed so far more frequently than those who have worn only one set of clothing can conceive; nor can there be any doubt that she reaped a twofold harvest by this device; the pleasure of life were increased and its experiences multiplied.

listen not to the bark of the guns and the bray of the gramophones but to the voices of the poets, answering each other, assuring us of a unity that rubs out divisions as if they were chalk marks only; to discuss with you the capacity of the human spirit to overflow boundaries and make unity out of multiplicity.

Até os homens e as mulheres parecem ter encolhido, tornaram-se numerosos e diminutos ao invés de únicos e substanciais.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

For I do not exist: there exist but thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases.

Man is a chimera, a monstrosity composed of an indeterminable number of contradictions.

The multiplicity of the mirrors does not affect the oneness of reflection in the numerous mirrors.

If you are wearing a gold necklace do I say 'Please remove the necklace, so I may see the gold?' I can't see the gold without seeing the necklace, and I can't see the necklace without seeing the gold. There are multitudes of gold jewelry in the world, but there is only one substance 'Gold.' All the gold jewelry comes from this one substance, the jewelry takes many forms and shapes, but they all arise out of this one substance — gold.

All is one, but the all is also the many.

There are multitudes of gold jewelry in the world, but there is only one substance 'Gold'. All the gold jewelry comes from this one substance, the jewelry takes many forms and shapes, but they all arise out of this one substance - gold.

The observer is one and the mirrors are many.

And yet this self, contains Tides, continents and stars?a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-blade Passed over by the wind Amongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

I think we're all bugs and mice, and are only different expressions of an all-inclusive cheese.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

Some days I think this one place isn't enough. That's when nothing is enough, when I want to live multiple lives and be allowed to love without limits. Those days, like today, I walk with a purpose but no destinations. Only then do I see, at least momentarily, that everything is here. — Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, the Universe, Home (Penguin, 1992)

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

I contradict myself? So, I contradict myself! I am infinite. I contain multitudes.