Quotes About Complexity

Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things.

I guess people can be wrong and right at the same time.

Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does to them.

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.

The paltriness of these sexual struggles.

Was she not so simple and free of ulterior motives as she looked? Well, neither was I.

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.

There were people who believed Herzog was rather simple, that his humane feelings were childish. That he had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe.

That's from the Middle Ages.' My God! We have a name for everything except what we really think and feel.

Mislio je: Draže mi je prihvatiti kao motiv ne nešto što potpuno razumijem, nego ono što napola razumijem. Skrajnja jasno?a objašnjenja za mene je neiskrena.

In every direction, the walls of life are tiled with such facts so that you can never account for them all, only note some of the more conspicuous ones.

she, although in a self-solicitous way, was a beautiful piece of tall work, on colossal but careful legs, hips forward; her mouth was big and would have been perfect if there hadn't been something self-tasting in it, eyes with complicated lids but magnificent in their slow heaviness, an erotic development. So that she had to cast

Ja kriv? Kako to misliš? - Jer si ti intelektualac, a oženio si intelektualku. U svakom intelektualcu krije se negdje budala. Vi ljudi ne znate odgovoriti niti na vlastita pitanja...

A strange heart. I myself can't account for it.

How lovely she could be! her face was gay and round, pink, the blue of her eyes was clear. Very different from the terrifying menstrual ice of her rages, the look of the murderess.

Cher Mozart, Un professeur de complexite, voila ce que tu es.Avec precision, tu pointes les extremes qui nous composent, les tensions qui nous constituent. Aux esprits confus, tout est confus. Aux esprits clairs, tout est clair: meme ce qui leur echappe. Des lors, plus une intelligence est lumineuse, plus elle peut apprehender le mystere.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is beyond the human brain to understand the world and its environment, so the brain compensates by creating simplified illusions that act as a replacement for understanding.

the simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far more convincing than any complicated explanation could hope to be.

One thing I can say with complete certainty is that it is a bad idea to trust the majority of experts in any domain in which both complexity and large amounts of money are involved.