“Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.”
Maxim 319
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
“Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.”
Maxim 319
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VIII : From God to God
Context: Not only are we unable to conceive of the full and living God as masculine simply, but we are unable to conceive of Him as individual simply, as the projection of a solitary I, an unsocial I, an I that is in reality an abstract I. My living I is an I that is really a We; my living personal I lives only in other, of other, and by other I's; I am sprung from a multitude of ancestors. I carry them within me in extract, and at the same time I carry within me, potentially, a multitude of descendants, and God, the projection of my I to the infinite — or rather I, the projection of God to the finite — must also be a multitude. Hence, in order to save the personality of God — that is to say, in order to save the living God — faith's need — the need of the feeling and the imagination — of conceiving Him and feeling Him as possessed of a certain internal multiplicity.
Introduction
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)
Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 105.
" resignation and postmortem http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html" (essay)
final words of the video
Public Talks, Larry Wall Speaks at Google (2008)