#multiplied

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#because #grotesque #just #just because #man

The Public is merely a multiplied "me." ↗

— Mark Twain

#merely #multiplied #public

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#multitude #tyranny

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

#astonishing #become #external #five #his

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#become #does #error #multiplied #nobody

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#call #chills #feel #first #first time

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#appearances #apply #contrary #could #english

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #most #multiplied #state #then