Quotes About Multiplicity

It is the greatest mistake," he said, "to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. We think that if a man is called Ivan he is always Ivan. Nothing of the kind. Now he is Ivan, in another minute he is Peter, and a minute later he is Nicholas, Sergius, Matthew, Simon. And all of you think he is Ivan.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

Offers herself up whole, without conflicts, a woman who is many things, all at once.

My favorite, how did you put it now? Landscapes, animals, plants? Favorite what? Books, music, architecture, painting? I don't have any favorite animals, no favorite mosquitoes, favorite beetles, favorite worms, even with the best will in the world I cannot tell you which birds or fish or predators I prefer, it would also be difficult for me to have to choose much more generally.

I'm learning everyone has many layers...and one or two don't define us.

It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.

Because in this way all I did was to accumulate past after past behind me, multiplying the pasts, and if one life was too dense and ramified and embroiled for me to bear it always with me, imagine so many lives, each with its own past and the pasts of the other lives that continue to become entangled one with the others.

Ik ben de enige die al de vrouwen die ze geweest is in haar kan zien. Soms raak ik haar dan aan, raak ik ze allemaal tegelijk even zachtjes aan.

I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt like most people just couldn't wait until they found themselves settled down into a routine and they didn't have to think about the next day, or the next year, or the next decade because it was all planned out for them. I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life.

There are more ways to think about experience than there are experience to think about.

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.

Du bist nicht ein Ziel für mich, Du bist tausend Ziele... und ich... führe Dir alles zu bei meinem Dir-entgegengehn.

there are many realities

Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together

Lumea este alc?tuit? din toate soiurile de oameni. O armat? e alc?tuit? din mai pu?ine soiuri.

We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things.

But this was only the first move, so to speak, in Sir Mort's intercourse with the cosmic multiplicity. The next thing this crazy owner of Roque must needs do was to pull himself out of the hole into which he had descended with such persistence and proceed to shoot himself through the air! On this air-borne quest he was careful to avoid every conceivable collision. He avoided the Moon and he avoided every planet. He avoided all the falling stars.

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

It's impossible for five people to have the exact same ambitions all around.

Everyone's life experience is different.

It is important to realize that as theism and theological thought developed in India, each "individual" god was seen as complex. Each was seen as the thousand-headed One, Purusha, who includes the others. Each expresses the full range of God's multiplicity. Further, each is not seen as penultimate, limited to the one quarter of Reality that we know; each is seen to stretch the theological imagination beyond the world-unworld