Quotes About Multiplicity

Many things, having full referenceTo one consent, may work contrariously;As many arrows, loosed several ways,Fly to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;As many lines close in the dial's center;So may a thousand actions, once afoot,End in one purpose, and be all well borneWithout defeat.

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

Sometimes people escape from childhood traumas by splitting into a whole spectrum of different, fully functioning identities, a condition known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). So distinct are these personalities that MPD victims will have not only different handwriting styles, artistic talents, and knowledge of foreign languages, but even different allergies, illnesses, and reactions to drugs, depending upon which personality they are "using" at the moment.

No hay nada en la vida que sea solo bueno o solo malo.

Nous sommes aussi l'ensemble des fantômes qui nous hantent... nous sommes plusieurs personnages en un, si convaincants dans les différents rôles que nous avons assumés qu'il nous est impossible de savoir lequel nous avons été vraiment, lequel nous sommes devenus, lequel nous survivra.

Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns.

We can never select the one result we want to the exclusion of all others.

the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, . . . it all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany, . . . formless, has no terrible & no beautiful condensation.

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the natural numbers. Two is all echo and counterpoise; two is the beginning of multiplicity, the way the universal oneness differentiates itself and breaks apart into strings and quarks and photons, all the separate and component pieces of life. Two is a symbol of becoming as opposed to pure being...

Black and white, severally incomplete and at the same time completely several.

one is good but ten is better. together is a powerful, beautiful, and peaceful.

The secret of an abundant life is to expand it with more beginnings so that the universe can fill your world from many directions.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

Se queda un momento en silencio, casi puedo oír el zumbido de lo que está pensando y me explica por fin que no sólo hay una realidad, sino muchas distintas, que cada hombre tiene la suya, y que no siempre coincide su realidad con la del prójimo.

Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.

Ultimate Reality is itself multiplicity, diversity. It is a waste of energy to strive to explain the world and its origin, which only diverts us from the essential Experience.

There is always another side, always.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

For a good part of his [Kafka's] work consists of tentative steps toward perpetually changing possibilities of future. He does not acknowledge a single future, there are many; this multiplicity of futures paralyzes him and burdens his step.

What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches!

There are several kinds of time going on at the same time.