Quotes About Multiplicity

All things are manifestations of one thing only.

Each arrow flies differently. You can shoot a thousand arrows and each one will follow a different trajectory: that is the way of the bow.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas. —Linus Pauling

any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations.

What is called for is not an integration of thought, or a kind of imposed unity, for any such imposed point of view would itself be merely another fragment. Rather, all our different ways of thinking are to be considered as different ways of looking at the one reality, each with some domain in which it is clear and adequate.

The most interesting thing about the world is its fantastic and unpsychoanalyzed character, its wretched and gallant personality, its horrible idiocy and its magnificent intelligence, its unbelievable cruelty and its equally unbelievable kindness, its gorilla stupor, its canary cheerfulness, its thundering divinity, and its whimpering commonness.

Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.

A thousand and one is still only a thousand. That one seems never to have existed: a

All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.

We want everything, we want to be everything. We want to experience all the joys of good fortune and the full depths of suffering. We want the excitement of action and the calm of observation. We want the silence of the desert as well as the noise of the forum. Simultaneously we want to be the hermit´s thought and the voice of the people; we want to be both melody and harmony. Simultaneously! How could this be possible?

The monster is bigger than the human. It represents abundance—overabundance. ... It has lots of eyes, extra arms, too many teeth. Everything about it is too many and too much.

No single group of people can be lumped together and neatly categorized.

I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves.

When you have variety, you have freedom.

No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

I always look for variety. I always want to run the gamut.

It is very important for actors to maintain a variety in their body of work.

What's lovely about what I do for a living is the vast chasm of variety that constantly just comes at you from all angles.

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

There were innumerable selves that he evoked in her.

I think it's healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.