Quotes About Multiplicity

It was unbelievable, there was the dry-cleaning ticket again. There must be more than one.

Lo más importante fue para mí el reconocimiento, confirmado por todos mis experimentos con LSD, que lo que de común se denomina «realidad», incluida la realidad de la propia persona, de ningún modo es algo fijo, sino algo de múltiple significación, y que no existe una realidad, sino varias; cada una de ellas encierra una distinta conciencia del yo.

Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists.

No puedo hablar con mi voz sino con mis voces.

The Multiplicity and the Unity are one and the same thing, a thing that is both many and one at the same time. The waves, and the currents underwater, make up the ocean. The ocean is the underlying basis for every wave. Neither the ocean, nor the waves, can be understood in isolation from each other.

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

We had a bunch of 'we's - a fitness concept, a restaurant concept. The first business plan we had included all of them.

The more players we have, the better it is for us.

Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view.

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

La razón de ser esencial de la guerra, es hacer cesar un desorden y restablecer un orden. Es la unificación de la multiplicidad, con los medios que pertenecen al mundo de la propia multiplicidad. Es únicamente en este aspecto como la guerra puede considerarse legítima.

The more they have sought to exploit matter, the more they have become its slaves, thus dooming themselves to ever increasing agitation without rule or objective, to a dispersion in pure multiplicity leading to final dissolution.

He was good at getting her sister pregnant. That dude had super sperm that made him a gold medalist in making babies. Her sister had five children, more than halfway to having the starting lineup for a baseball team.

Yo soy Ricardo y soy Silva y soy Romero, soy yo y soy mi padre y soy mi madre, ni más ni menos que esos tres,

Cornered again, Mr. Cook reluctantly made a third duplicate; then a fourth, a fifth. The city, albeit large, soon became thick with William O. Cooks. He would come upon himself at corners, discover himself asking himself for lights, end up, quite literally, beside himself.

It's sometimes hard to say whether a tree is a single thing or whether it's a million.

Life moves first toward diversity and then toward union of that very diversity at ever higher levels. It is the old philosophical problem of "the one and the many

We are none of us one thing alone and unchanging. We are not static, or at rest. Just as a city or a prince's court or a lineage is many people in one, so is a person many people within one, always unfinished and always like a river's current flowing onward ever changing toward the ocean that is greater than all things combined.

I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious

We drove past a large creature with numerous limbs and eyes, then even as I watched, a crack appeared down its center. As it divided itself, I realized it had been, all along, two separate people – a runner and a dog walk woman – moving in opposite directions who for an instant happened to be passing one another. Then came a store with a sign saying 'Eat In Take Out' and in front of it, a lost baseball cap on the sidewalk.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.