Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

There's no way we could make up what we are. The group is just what everyone is. Each of us has a different audience.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

There is never only one, of anyone

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

There's a big difference between oneness and sameness. Oneness implies that we're all connected and that we all come from the same source. Sameness implies that we all have to do things and exactly think the same way as everybody else does.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

There was Layla in the fullness of her lips, Lulu in the thick waves of her hair, Lu Xin in the intensity of her hazel eyes, Lucia in their twinkle. She was not alone. Maybe she never would be alone again. There, in the mirror, was every incarnation of Lucinda staring back at her and wondering, "What is to become of us? What about our history, and our love?

Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.

Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

Differentiation is in name and form only.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.