Quotes about Multiplicity

On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka "nested dolls" that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)

This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

I answer that, The truth of this question is quite clear if we consider the divine simplicity. For it was shown above (Q[3], A[3]) that the divine simplicity requires that in God essence is the same as "suppositum," which in intellectual substances is nothing else than person. But a difficulty seems to arise from the fact that while the divine persons are multiplied, the essence nevertheless retains its unity.

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

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

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.