Quotes About Plurality

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

Diversity cannot swim in a world flooding with clones.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

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

I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Rien ne s'y trouve formé, parce que toutes les formes y sont possibles.

The world becomes a pageant of diversity with its differences neatly organised and selected.

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

That Native American cultures are imperiled is important and not just to Indians. It is important to everyone, or should be. When we lose cultures, we lose American plurality—the productive and lovely discomfort that true difference brings.

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

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.

The more the merrier.

Pastors are leaders, but they are to be a part of a plurality of elders that submit to each other and are held in check by the congregation. It is not wise for any one leader, apart from Christ Jesus, to be without accountability.

The seas are wide and flow together. They have no borders and have room enough for all fish.

La vie est créatrice de différences.

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,' and citizens of the U.K. may call themselves British, English, Scottish, Welsh or from Northern Ireland.

reality is always plural and mutable.

The One in India has got to be the same as the One in Greece. If it's not, you've got two. The only disagreements among the monists concern the attributes of the One, not the One itself. Since the One is the source of all things and includes all things in it, it cannot be defined in terms of those things, since no matter what thing you use to define it, the thing will always describe something less than the One itself.

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

Historically, Apartheid's failure to secure, once and for all, impenetrable frontiers between a plurality of different fleshes demonstrated a posteriori the limits of the colonial project of separation. Short of its total extermination, the Other is no longer external to us. It is within us, in the double figure of the alter ego, each mortally exposed to the other and to itself.