Multiplicity Quotes

• A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Life
  • Change
  • Moments

• Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

  

  Edwin Newman
  • God
  • Scientists
  • Abraham Lincoln

• In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Purpose
  • Confusion
  • Forced

• I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Religious
  • Mystery
  • Believers

• Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Things
  • Confusion
  • Multiplicity

• There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.

  

  Anandamayi Ma
  • Reality
  • Diversity
  • Multiplicity

• Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

  

  Miguel Syjuco
  • Reactions
  • Modernism
  • Subjectivity

• 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
  • Society
  • Complexity
  • Anarchy

• No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.

  

  William George Jordan
  • Gratitude
  • Eternity
  • Recognition

• 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 God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Experience
  • Doctrine
  • Prejudices

• We can no longer contemplate the subject - self - of contemporary art; it has been woven into infinite relationships, replaced by social movements, national image, and financial capital. The disappearance of the construction of the self of contemporary art makes it impossible to exist in the form of a subject. The subject of contemporary art that I speak of is a kind of naming event predicated upon the multiplicity of the environment. It includes politics, should have its own way of thinking, and can be perceived.

  

  Wang Jianwei
  • Thinking
  • Environment
  • Impossible

• My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Universe
  • Eye
  • Body

• Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Consciousness
  • Teaches
  • Multiplicity

• Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Multiplicity