Quotes About Complexity

How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered.

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

You understand too little of what you see. You see a pretty face and hear a loving voice. But she is more than that, Silas. Much more. She is cold water and lack of breath. She is emptiness and oblivion. She is the very tide, drawing things to her and pulling them below.

e sabe, mais do que ninguém, que sua alma é um velho catre, cheio de insensatez e de solércia.

H]istory is baroque.

Every advance in the complexity of the economy puts an added premium upon superior ability, and intensifies the concentration of wealth, responsibility and political power.

History is so indifferently rich that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.

We have to ask ourselves why we are so focused on silent girly-girls in G-strings faking lust. This is not a sign of progress, it's a testament to what's still missing from our understanding of human sexuality with all its complexity and power. We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely conjure up the concept of 'sexy.' When you think about it, it's kind of pathetic.

Verden var et jævelig sted, det hendte så mye som jeg verken kunne begripe eller forstå.

The trickiest thing is the nature of man, apparent in everything.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Our bodies do not divide as neatly into male and female as many people commonly believe.4 Nor do our minds. As Magnus Hirschfeld, the pioneering early twentieth-century sexologist, argued, "the human is not a man or woman, but rather man and woman.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated

But life is richer when we embrace the multitudes we all contain, even if we aren't consistent and what we do doesn't always make sense, even to us.

Here is a terrifying system-wide purview: crime, disease, environment, and politics all obey a heinous logic of unknowable dormancy, so that we know them only when they explode, when they present the bill, when the damage is done. It is the damage that constitutes our knowing.

Uneven! Easy to say! As if you could always go straight to the point!

Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.