Quotes About Plurality

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

Obviously, the world is yearning for more diversity.

For us to accomplish our goals, it will be necessary to transform our political culture, to respect plurality, and to build, among ourselves, bridges and more bridges.

Then if it is impossible both for things unlike to be like and for like things to be unlike, then it's also impossible for there to be many things? For if there were many things, they would incur impossibilities.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

Maybe the problem with "the box" is that it is singular.

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

E Pluribus Unum, "One from Many," was taken from, of all places, a recipe for salad in an early poem by Virgil.)

Multiplicity which is not reduced to unity is confusion. Unity which does not depend on multiplicity is tyranny.

She has more names than petticoats.

You will always be more than one person. You will always embody contradiction.

So as not to risk appearing to introduce a duality, let alone a plurality, into the one and personal God, the Semitic texts and their commentators refuse to give the right answer by stating that God, being "all-powerful," "doeth what He wills"; we find this argument in Isaiah, Job and Saint Paul, as well as in the Koran. It is a doubl-edged argument, yet for certain psychological reasons it was efficacious for three or four millennia, in the climate for which it was destined. - p98

All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one center.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

There was, in his mind, no truer measure of stupidity than to imagine that the world could be reduced to two sides

Every single person in this world is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.

We are, each of us, a multitude.

When I came to Bombay, as it was called in my time, it was filled with people from everywhere, Kashmir to Kerala.