Quotes About Multiplicity

Sich mit diesem oder jenem zu identifizieren, ist also ein normaler Vorgang. Gefährlich wird es, sobald eine einzige Identität bestimmend wird, sobald man nur noch Muslim ist oder Christ oder Deutscher, Iraner oder meinetwegen Anhänger eines bestimmten Fußballclubs oder eines Popstars. Dann wird aus der pragmatischen Einschränkung, die jede Art von Identifizierung bedeutet, eine reale Verstümmelung der Persönlichkeit.

To make a faithful picture, come as close as possible to copying the object as it is.' This simple-minded injunction baffles me; for the object before me is a man, a swarm of atoms, a complex of cells, a fiddler, a friend, a fool and much more. If none of these constitute the object as it is, what else might? If all are ways the object is, then none is way the object is. I cannot copy all these at once; and the more nearly I succeeded, the less would the result be a realistic picture.

Even the most apparently simple statement is subject to fission or fissure.

We're none of us, are we, just one thing? I am a policeman, but also a father, a husband for the time being, a nursemaid to a sister who I pray will survive her illness. You are a journalist, a writer, and I don't know what else besides. To look at a person from a single angle is to deform them. Even if Yolanda is guilty...she is also afraid of the dark. And I cannot forget that I put her there.

What we witness at the fea is not just a celebration of the multiplicity of modernities but also, and more importantly, a critical commentary on local structures of inequality that take for granted that both tradition and modernity are the prerogatives of the high ranking and wealthy.

Self under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm, and in the centre, me.

There are more than enough traits and Characteristics in this world for each of us to be richly endowed, I thought to myself.

Yo no tengo una personalidad; yo soy un cocktail, un conglomerado, una manifestación de personalidades.

no pasa media hora sin que me nazca una nueva personalidad.

Instantly sixty little hands grabbed at sixty sandwiches, which were stuffed down sixty throats in under sixty seconds.

Halk tektir, çünkü yerleÅŸik topluluk s?n?rlanm?? tehlikelerden kaynaklanan korkular? yat??t?rmak için iÅŸbirliÄŸi yapar. Bunun yerine çokluk, kendini evinde hissetmeme duygusundan, "tüm taraflar? ile dünyaya maruz kalma" duygusundan kaynaklanan risk ile birleÅŸir.

No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version.

Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I've had more names than anyone has a right to.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

One of the odd things about being himself ... was that there seemed to be several of him, that he wasn't just one person but a collection of contradictory selves, and each time he was with a different person, he himself was different as well.

Indeed there may be more: a chorus of me, the observed and the observers.

Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.