Multiplicity Quotes

92 Multiplicity quotes by 82 unique authors

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
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never… — Marguerite Yourcenar
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. — Gilles Deleuze
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. — Isaac Newton
The poetâ€¦is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist… — Jacques Derrida
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity… — Marcel Proust

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