Plurality Quotes

• But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

  

  Aristotle
  • Individual
  • Unity
  • State

• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Promises
  • Redemption
  • Chaotic

• Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Confusion
  • Tyranny
  • Plurality

• Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Consciousness
  • Mirrors
  • Aspects

• In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

  

  Aristotle
  • Things
  • Have
  • Cause

• The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Philosophy
  • Attractive
  • Analogies

• I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Speech
  • Understood
  • Plurality