Famous quotes containing the words manifold and/or admits:
“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 [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)
“Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)