Quotes About Plurality

The universe has never made one of anything, so why would there even be one of itself?

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

In Mumbai you have people of all cast and religion.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Objection 1: It would seem that there are more than three persons in God. For the plurality of persons in God arises from the plurality of the relative properties as stated above (A[1]). But there are four relations in God as stated above (Q[28], A[4]), paternity, filiation, common spiration, and procession. Therefore there are four persons in God.

There is no law governing all things.

Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

The word for one in Deuteronomy 6:4 is echad and is a compound unity, a collective sense. It implies plurality in unity, like in "one cluster of grapes.

All is one, but the all is also the many.

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

Society is unity in diversity.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.

Our country's motto is e pluribus unum: out of many, we are one. Will we stay true to that motto?

To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air.

The trinity of gods that then followed was no other than a reduction of the former plurality, which was about twenty or thirty thousand: the statue of Mary succeeded the statue of Diana of Ephesus; the deification of heroes changed into the canonization of saints; the Mythologists had gods for everything; the Christian Mythologists had saints for everything; the church became as crowded with one, as the Pantheon had been with the other, and Rome was the place of both.

El lenguaje siempre es una pluralidad, y esa te hace pensar a veces que el lenguaje es la expresión más perfecta de la razón y a la vez es la expresión más imperfecta de la razón, ya que toda palabra posee una significación que puede ser anulada por otra palabra. Lo que me propuse es ver cómo el lenguaje desemboca del silencio, de ese silencio significativo.

I resist anything better than my own diversity, And breathe the air and leave plenty after me

technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence. And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced. These two processes lead to a tremendous shattering of tradition which is the obverse of the contemporary crisis and renewal of mankind.

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.

And, as you know, opinions are like assholes---everybody has one.)