Quotes About Multiplicity

In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one. You are forgetting your root life.

Not every fruit has to be an apple.

In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one.

but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways.

We do not have the right to level out all experience into a single world.

The negative principle is less identity-with-self than non-difference-with-self. This absence becomes a factor only by negation of its own negation. It is less a unity of the multiple in the living than an adhesion between the elements of the multiple. In a sense, there is only the multiple, and this totality that surges from it is not a totality in potential, but the establishment of a certain dimension.

Production: not a tree, but bushes of several roots mixed together.

Signification is always the divergence: what the other says appears to me to be full of meaning because his lacunae are never where mine are. Perspective multiplicity.

Objects form a system in which one object cannot appear without concealing others.

History has no single signification; what we do always has several senses, and this is how an existential conception of history is distinguished from both materialism and spiritualism.

To keep people from the particulars of your life kept you from being seen as one thing or another, and so it was possible you could be thought of as anything, or even as everything.

There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

Toda a vida acreditei: amor é dois se duplicarem em um. Mas hoje sinto: ser um é ainda muito. De mais. Ambiciono, sim, ser o múltiplo de nada. Ninguém no plural. Ninguéns.

People understand this about physical disabilities. Someone with a broken leg will not, for that reason alone, be denied a job that requires typing. We are comfortable with the idea that physical health is not just a single number but a multiplicity of factors. That's where we need to arrive about mental problems, too.

When the obstacles in the world become greater and more complex and seem to be coming from all directions at once, there are two great tendencies in the psyche. One is to simplify and quickly adopt some form of fundamentalism. The other is to accept the multiplicity and the great tension that come from embracing the world as it presents itself.

No man is ever just one thing.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

There is an actor in every character you are playing. We are sons, daughters, students, lovers, friends, employees, students, parents, etc. Be true and real under every skin you wear, don't be characterized, be yourself first, sincere, real and get MickeyMized.

To "see both sides" of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides. —Idries Shah, REFLECTIONS

We are a rotating cast of aspects of self that are shown to one person, or in one setting, and hidden in another. Memorial services are often jarring in this regard: friends and relatives eulogize the deceased in such conflicting terms they might be talking of different people.

Being an author is not as easy as it sounds. In short, an author can create thousands of actors. Also an actor can produce several musicians.

So everything is something else.

Don't you feel more than one thing at a time? That's what insanity is, trying to feel one way. That's why it feels good to go crazy. Or to be addicted. It's so much easier than feeling several things at once. -Miles