Quotes About Multiplicity

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach... To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just on thing in life, would kill off large parts of me.

Sometimes the thoughts and feelings I had didn't really agree with each other, so I decided I must be lots of different people inside my brain.

What was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

El hombre piensa muchas cosas. Piensa que es Uno. Generalmente es varios. Hasta que sea Uno, no podrá tener una idea clara de lo que él es.

Mesdames, un conseil. Si vous cherchez un homme beau, riche et intelligent... Prenez-en trois !" Ladies, a word of advice. If you're looking for a handsome, rich and intelligent man… Take three!

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.

and in that is their power, the strength of many—chaos.

Nunca he pretendido que una sola idea explicara la diversidad del mundo ni un Dios fuera más cierto que numerosos dioses Nunca he pretendido que la psicología excluyera a la biología, ni que tener un sexo excluyera al otro.

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

There are 100,000 versions of Jeff Goldblum.

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

It's OK to just have one version of yourself. It's OK to have multiple versions of yourself too, but you don't have to.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Ses lèvres cherchaient des Thérèse dans mes cheveux, dans mon cou, dans les plis de mon tablier, entre mes doigts, sur mon épaule. Que ne puis-je me reproduire mille fois et lui donner mille Thérèse. Je ne suis que moi-même. C'est trop peu.

One composed of many.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.

Two is the number which separates, three the number which transcends all separation: the one and the many find themselves gathered and circumscribed in the Trinity.

Every class, then, has plurality of being and infinity of not-being.