Manifold Quotes

• The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

  Georg Hermes

  Soul, Form, Pilgrimage

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• You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness.
  Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

  Swami Muktananda

  Joy, Mountain, Consciousness

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• Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

  Richard Owen

  Appreciation, Dependence On Others, Importance

  "The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, vol. 111". Journal by Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, William Empson, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox, p. 494, 1860.

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• Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Earth, Misery, Wretchedness

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• The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

  Aeschylus

  Wings, Evil, Literature

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• If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Diversity, Unity

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• Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.

  Novalis

  Self, World, Unions

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

  Annie Besant

  Elements, Matter, Spirit

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.217, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Taken, Eye

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• Civilisation is hooped together, brought
  Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
  By manifold illusion.

  William Butler Yeats

  Civilization, Together, Uprooting

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Intelligent, Common Purpose, Goal

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

  Bertrand Russell

  Advice, Solitude, World

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have heard of reasons manifold
  Why Love must needs be blind,
  But this the best of all I hold,-
  His eyes are in his mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Eye, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.37, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purity, Form

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• Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

  Michel Foucault

  Exercise, Power, Groups

  Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.34, MIT Press

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• There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book for several hundred years. They'll be able to say, "Look at all the cool stuff you can have in a real book and how different it is." The differences are manifold.

  Art Spiegelman

  Real, Book, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

  Henri Bergson

  Psychics, Degrees, Different

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• Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.

  Paul Celan

  Names, World

  Paul. Celan (2011). “Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan”, p.108, Wesleyan University Press

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• Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, May, Psychedelic

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• The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements. There is one space only, though we may conceive of many different manifolds, which are contrivances or ideal constructions invented for the purpose of determining space.

  Paul Carus

  Truth, Science, Space

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• Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from nothing. It has to portray the first periods of the world's development from nothing; how the elements and heavenly bodies originated; in what method by self-evolution into higher and manifold forms, they separated into minerals, became finally organic, and in Man attained self-consciousness.

  Lorenz Oken

  Philosophy, Science, Men

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• In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.

  Michel Foucault

  Teacher, Children, School

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage

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• It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.

  Hugh Black

  Happiness, Self, Missing

  Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”

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• The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.

  Richard Owen

  Blessed, Science, Epidemics

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