Quotes About Plurality

One composed of many.

What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?

For harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Every class, then, has plurality of being and infinity of not-being.

if it be shown that absolute unity is also many and the absolute many again are one, then I shall be amazed.

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

Is it enough to say you would like to live several lives simultaneously?

plurality without Design is merely chaos.

I think you always, with anything, need to have different viewpoints.

I think it's a very powerful notion, the notion that our personal views, although closely held, are not necessarily right. That part of what is noble is making sure there are checks and balances and a plurality of opinions.

The world is a chaos, an irreducible plurality of forces, instincts and drives which ceaselessly clash.

India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

A garden always includes many smaller gardens. Indeed, no garden exists as a single thing. By its nature, it is plural, just as each person is a symposium of cells, or an arch is a strength made from many weaknesses.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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

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 were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.