Quotes About Complexity

Ah, yes, ah, yes, my dear friend, think it over well: a minute ago, when this thing happened to you, you were a different person; not only that, you were at the same time a hundred others, a hundred-thousand.

For the drama lies all in this—in the conscience that I have, that each one of us has. We believe this conscience to be a single thing, but it is many-sided.

Ma, perdiana!, la Natura ha faticato migliaja, migliaja e migliaja di secoli per salire questi cinque gradini, dal verme all'uomo; s'è dovuta evolvere, è vero? questa materia per raggiungere come forma e come sostanza questo quinto gradino, per diventare questa bestia che ruba, questa bestia che uccide, questa bestia bugiarda, ma che è pure capace di scrivere la Divina Commedia […].

Quel che di fluido, di vivente, di mobile, di oscuro è nella realtà, sissignori, sfugge alla ragione.

The work of art offers an experience of contradictions and incommensurabilities – these are much better than truths.

Ambiguities everywhere should be collected as evidence of ambivalence.

And I could tell she loved him. And although she was an evil fungus growing on 200 pounds of irritated lard, her feelings were real.

What did I expect him to say--that he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as easy as that.

intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it.

nothing is straightforward in the world of literary taste.

The best and worst of life all rolled into one incident," Mildrede said sadly. "Life never seems to be able to give you one without the other.

It's just a psychological cliché you brought over with you from Russia. I assure you there are no non-believers, particularly among artistic people. The nature of faith varies—the greater the intellect, the more complex the form it takes. There's also a form of intellectual chastity which won't allow anything to be discussed or articulated. We're surrounded by the most vulgar forms of primitive religiosity, and it's hard to bear Ã¢â'¬Â¦

That's the one thing we never seem to get, how unpackable everything is.

For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.

And if we take it seriously, we are going to find that this simple notion of a loving God does not make for an easy philosophy.

Because I begin from the premise that people are too complex for simple explanations. It is the habit of simplifying people that leads so many astray in their quest for understanding. You can't learn a person you've decided you already understand.

Ce ciudate mai sunt È™i relaÈ›iile dintre oameni. Ne purt?m frumos, ba chiar exagerat de frumos, cu acei oameni de care ne e team?, în schimb cu cei timizi È™i retraÈ™i ne purt?m ca niÈ™te despoÈ›i. (...) Cu toÈ›ii avem o natur? dubl?.

Assim vai a vida humana: um nada basta para complicar tudo.

Capitu era Capitu isto é uma criatura mui particular mais mulher do que eu era homem.

mas nem a alma de um homem é tão estreita que não caibam nela coisas contrárias,..

Capitu era Capitu, isto é, uma criatura mui particular, mais mulher do que eu era homem. Se ainda o não disse, aí fica. Se disse, fica também. Há conceitos que se devem incutir na alma do leitor, à força de repetição.

não direi ótimo, mas nem tudo é ótimo neste mundo.

It does not matter; the reconciliation of a family is itself an enigmatic gesture.

Do you think things always have an explanation? Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.