Multiplicity Quotes

92 Multiplicity quotes by 82 unique authors

So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the… — Emil Brunner
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with… — Vera Nazarian
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it. — Mary Doria Russell
Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity,… — Alfred North Whitehead
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in… — James Madison
The future belongs to crowds. — Don DeLillo
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the… — E. M. Forster
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. — Quintilian
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. — Marquis de Sade
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. — Herbert Spencer
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture,… — George Edward Woodberry
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our… — Hermann Hesse
...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity… — Michel Foucault
No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more… — Margaret Atwood
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II — Frank Herbert
Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in… — Nhat Hanh
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me… — Toni Morrison
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. — Anais Nin
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must… — Henry Adams
JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide. — Paulo Coelho
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities — Gilles Deleuze

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