Quotes About Multiplicity

The only thing that beats One is two, and three, and four.

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

Even if we acknowledge the existence of distinct and irreducible perspectives, the wish for a unified conception of the world doesn't go away. If we can't achieve it in a form that eliminates individual perspectives, we may inquire to what extent it can be achieved if we admit them.

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

The fundamental motif at the heart of many ancient myths is that the primal oneness of being is manifesting as the multiplicity of life, so that it can come to know itself. As the Gnostic sage Simon Magus says in 'The Great Announcement': There is one power… begetting itself, increasing itself, seeking itself, finding itself… One root of the All.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.

Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both everything and nothing. The signals are everywhere.

I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

I contain multitudes

There's never just one cockroach in the kitchen.

To be conscious is already to be divided, to be multiple.

There may be one thousand mirrors, each reflecting a different reflection of the sun. There are not one thousand suns, there is one sun shining in all. Reflections may be different, Sun is the same. Sun is one, shining in everything, in every atom, same.

I maintain that (as usual) many sides exist to this issue rather than only two. Two-sided issues (creationism vs darwinism, "choice" vs "pro-life," etc.) are all without exception delusions , spectacular lies.

God is not "Being" but beyond being, because being necessarily includes multiplicity.98 Yet this "many", as Maximus explains along with Pseudo-Dionysius, is always such only because of unity.

A man is a thousand parts, All of them other people." -Harold Robbins in The Inheritors

Is it always "or"? Is it never "and"? —STEPHEN SONDHEIM, INTO THE WOODS Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) —WALT WHITMAN, "SONG OF MYSELF

Quantum mechanics has to be expanded, to allow for many different descriptions, depending on who the observer is.

It is remarkable that different people will have different thoughts when they look at the same thing.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots—prostitute, housewife, saint—like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

One can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.