Quotes About Multiplicity

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

No one was ever simply anything

Two people were not one

Chaque vérité éternelle existe en double, en multiples exemplaires.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself. How many girls were you, Aunt Jimsie? About half a dozen, my dear.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

Ä°çimde birçok Anne var. Bazen, bu yüzden bu kadar sorunlu bir insan olduÄŸumu düÅŸünüyorum. Yaln?zca tek bir Anne olsa her ÅŸey çok daha rahat olurdu ama o zaman da hiç ilginç olmazd?.

It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.

How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. "We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines." In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes—or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

It'd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

Yes, and one of the insurance policies is that there are many of us. We're like a back-up support.

That's all right, Neal thought. Every one of us is at least two people.

The growth of poetry is a counterforce--and a response--to our culture of numbers and information, of digits and commerce. We read and write poems so that our psyches can speak to each other with intelligence in the language of feeling, acknowledging the multiplicity and contradiction of each human life.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

Don't just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don't just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.