Quotes About Complexity

The increase of knowledge has forced the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation as a whole. We are playing a game of chess in which nobody can see more than two or three squares at once, and so it has become impossible to form a coherent plan.

Todas las generalizaciones son peligrosas, incluyendo esta.

Es necesaria la desgracia para socavar ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas en la inteligencia humana; es precisa la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora.

Mintea omului este ca viaÈ›a:un labirint care unori scoate din cel ce se pierde în el lucruri pe care niciodat? nu È™i le-a închipuit.

Jasper Gwyn mi ha insegnato che non siamo personaggi, siamo storie, disse Rebecca. Ci fermiamo all'idea di essere un personaggio impegnato in chissà quale avventura, anche semplicissima, ma quel che dovremmo capire è che noi siamo tutta la storia, non solo quel personaggio. Siamo il bosco dove cammina, il cattivo che lo frega, il casino che c'è attorno, tutta la gente che passa, il colore delle cose, i rumori.

Debo comunicarle una cosa muy importante, monsieur, todos damos asco. Somos todos maravillosos, y todos damos asco.

an impossible geometry

La tierra es un barco demasiado grande para mí. Es un viaje demasiado largo. Es una mujer demasiado hermosa. Es un perfume demasiado intenso. Es una música que no sé tocar. Perdonadme. Pero no voy a bajar. Dejadme volver atrás.

Então pensou que, por mais incompreensível que seja a vida, provavelmente nós a cruzamos com o único desejo de retornar ao inferno que nos gerou, e de viver ali, ao lado de quem, uma vez, nos salvou daquele inferno.

Devo comunicarvi una cosa molto importante, monsieur. Facciamo tutti schifo. Siamo tutti meravigliosi, e facciamo tutti schifo.

Nous sommes tous merveilleux, et nous sommes tous répugnants, Alessandro Baricco

Jasper Gwyn taught me that we aren't characters, we're stories," said Rebecca. "We stop at the idea of being a character engaged in who knows what adventure, even a very simple one, but what we have to understand is that we are the whole story, not just that character. We are the wood where he walks, the bad guy who cheats him, the mess around him, all the people who pass, the color of things, the sounds.

Perché una soluzione perfetta che non riesco a spiegare alla gente è destinata a fallire.

Damos asco todos. Somos maravillosos todos, y damos todos asco

If you're fucked up in the head there's no explanation. You might think about it one way one minute then two hours later you'll think about it totally different. It's too confusing to even try and put your head around it. Now, can we leave it alone?

when writing a biography, you can't trust certainties. Just as you're about to pounce on something that will condemn you to a tidy answer, pooooofff! It vanishes.

We think that we can fix our lives by taking some simple step, but it's not like that. Most problems need lots of sticking plasters. They need coaxing and massaging and looking at from all sorts of different angles.

There were times when one thought the opposite of what one really felt. That was very common, and this was an example of exactly that.

just like the affairs of the adult world--complicated rules and a history.

The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.

I was deliberately southern African. Not in a good or easy way. There is no getting around the fact that there had been so much awful violence to get me here; my people had engaged in such terrible acts of denial and oppression; I so obviously did not look Africa; and yet here I still was.

No woman can be truly beautiful who is not, also sometimes, truly ugly.

Why?" Rhett's mouth twisted in a smile. "Because she was so full of fire and so recklessly, stubbornly brave. Because she was such a child beneath all her pretenses. Because she was unlike any woman I had ever known. She fascinated me, infuriated me, drove me mad. I loved her as consumingly as she loved him. From the day I first laid eyes on her. It was a kind of disease.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.