Quotes About Complexity

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad.

Chinese sometimes is fuzzy, but its beauty lies in its fuzziness.

You know how I used to joke that your mother had three thousand six hundred and twenty-two feelings and I had the requisite five basic ones which have an evolutionary purpose? Because, quite frankly, most of the time I didn't know what the bloody hell she was on about? Well, since coming round from surgery I'm finding myself having others, another . . . perhaps the sixth emotion.

Contrary to popular belief," he began, "every normal person is both male and female in some degree." What he called "erotic emotions" are felt by all people, toward virtually all other people. The problem is that "people not trained to an analytical point of view fail to consider these more complex expressions of erotic feeling," and tend to regard them as abnormal.

The Constitution threatens to be a subject of infinite sects, like the Bible." And, as with many sects, those politicians who most strenuously staked their arguments on the Constitution often appeared the least acquainted with it.

WHEN IT WAS DECIDED (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was not taken into account was that for some of us truth can never be an absolute, that there can (at best) be only less true and more true and sometimes those two collapse inside each other like aTurducken.

Opposing ideas can be simultaneously true; one reinforces the other even as they're both canceled out.