Multiplicity Quotes
92 quotes by 83 authors
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their…
— John Avlon
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Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
— Gerhard Richter
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Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.
— Henry Adams
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We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if…
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
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Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope to…
— Angelo Bagnasco
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The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
— Samuel Johnson
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Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
— Colin Ward
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You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you…
— Daphne Oram
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return…
— Joan Halifax
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Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of…
— Piet Mondrian
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event…
— Alain Badiou
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The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist before that for…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so…
— Lewis Mumford
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American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves The stages of…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind...
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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