Quotes About Multiplicity

A garden always includes many smaller gardens. Indeed, no garden exists as a single thing. By its nature, it is plural, just as each person is a symposium of cells, or an arch is a strength made from many weaknesses.

I'm wondering. Shall we say its perfect for the sea and the sunlight - and the other Rose is perfect for candlelight? And perhaps what's most perfect of all is to find there are several Roses?

La dualidad esta dentro de nosotros todos estamos compuestos de absolutamente si y absolutamente no, de norte y sur, oscuridad y luz, todos somos héroes y todo lo contrario, podemos volar y caer.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives.

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.

all that a world could be, no matter what, is, somewhere, in some way. fullness of possibles, consistency. no matter which talking head, mine for example, adjacent to my body and why not against my face, the angel's, the black shadow face itself, but all the seats are taken, all the worlds unavailable to you.

One thing I have learned, dear Sparrow, is that light is never still and solid and so it is with love. Light can be split into many directions. Its nature is to break apart. My

Don't ever try to be only a single thing, an unbroken human being. If so many people love you, can you honestly be one thing?

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

What you see is only half of what I am. I have a hundred different faces, a million different personalities. Only a part of me is what I show you. I display a fraction of my true self. Everything is just a façade. Its not the truth of me. You dont know me. you never will.

Diversity is the key to life, without it we would be a mindless drone of a single colored spectrum.

There are too many of them. It's simpler if they just remember me.

This and this and this, I said to him.

You won't find the same person twice, not even in the same person.

And in a world desperate to pigeon-hole and categorize and stereotype, she may feel forced to come down on one side or the other. And the truth is, she's both. And the truth is, she's neither.

the expression "beyond age" is meant simply to apply to the multiplicity of times present in each of us at every instant

he had been married three times, and had fathered at least thirteen children,

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which would otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.

each one of us is not a single person, but contains many persons who have not all the same moral value

Yes, I have been forced to whittle down the facts, and to be a liar, but it is not one universe, there are millions, almost as many as the number of human eyes and brains in existence, that awake every morning.

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many.