Quotes About Complexity

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

I am a little world made cunninglyOf elements, and an angelic sprite.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love

Every woman is a science; for he that plods upon a woman all his life long, shall at length finde himself short of the knowledge of her.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much more complex.

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being.

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

Life is a thread that someone entangled.