Quotes About Plurality

It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.

Every question, every problem doesn't have a single correct answer. One must permit diversity. A monolith is unstable.

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate

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.

There's as many ways to live as people.

mas nem a alma de um homem é tão estreita que não caibam nela coisas contrárias,..

There is no such thing as a best solution, be it a tool, a language, or an operating system.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

There is more than one history of the world.

creer que somos "uno" que tiene existencia por sí mismo, desligado de la inconmensurable pluralidad de los propios yoes, representa una ilusión lo demás ingenua, de la tradición cristiana de una alma única (…) porque nosotros tenemos varias almas dentro de nosotros, ¿comprende?, una confederación que se pone bajo el control de un yo hegemónico".

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

Being at one is godlike and good, but human, too human, the mania Which insists that there is only the One, one country, one truth and one way.

I set apart with high reverence the name of Heraclitus. When the rest of the philosopher crowd rejected the evidence of the senses because these showed plurality and change, he rejected their evidence because they showed things as if they possessed duration and unity.

The invention of the laws of number has as its basis the primordial and prior-prevailing delusion that many like things exist (although in point of fact there is no such thing is a duplicate), or that, at least, there are things (but there is no "thing"). The assumption of plurality always presupposes that something exists which manifests itself repeatedly, but just here is where the delusion prevails; in this very matter we feign realities, unities, that have no existence.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

There is never only one, of anyone

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

Isn't this planet big enough for differences?

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.

The most general definition of beauty… Multeity in Unity.

those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.