Quotes About Plurality

Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.

The more the merrier. Too many cooks spoil the broth of destruction.

Furthermore, by arguing not only that all knowing and all speaking is done from a particular perspective, but that each perspective is equally true and valuable, postmodernism promotes not merely an alternative truth but a plurality of truths.

Take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

What would I reclaim America as? I do want it to be a diverse country.

In the world we want, everyone fits. We want a world in which many worlds fit.

One cannot be dogmatic about the right solution.

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

A single voice and yet a chorus.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

YOUR ASSHOLE, MY ASSHOLE, THE WORLD IS FULL OF BILLIONS OF ASSHOLES. THE PRESIDENT HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE CARWASH BOY HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE JUDGE AND THE MURDERER HAVE ASSHOLES

In a Google world, meaning and ontology are entirely in the eyes and minds of the beholder. One thing can be many different things to many different people.

The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

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

Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home;exiles are are aware of at least two, and this plurality gives rise to an awareness of simultaneous dimensions...

The world is more various than we ever give it credit for.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

There can be no universal without diversity: the quest for the ultimate commonality would be pointless if we did not recognize the initial differences that explain just why we have to go in search of the universal.

Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men.