Quotes About Complexity

I love him, and I hate him. I can't help it. I'm sure he feels much the same way. We've shared some of the best days of our lives and some of the worst. We understand each other, and yet we don't. We make each other laugh, and we make each other cry.

People always liked her from a distance. But when they got closer they realized she was just too much for them.

Die Vielschichtigkeit der Welt und das Verworrene der Beziehungen in ihr jagt uns allen den Schrecken des Unabsehbaren ein, da täte Klarheit schon ganz gut. Doch was bedeutet Klarheit, wenn die Verhältnisse immer undurchschaubarer werden?

They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one.

How could she explain to him what her love was like? That although it was a love stronger than death, it wasn't the kind of love one *did* anything about?

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Contradictory conditions are always present. Evidence

It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by anyone well acquainted with the subject.

It may be taken as axiomatic that any statement of fact about the Middle Ages may (and probably will) be met by a statement of the opposite or a different version.

Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

For every complex problem there is a simple solution. And it's wrong. – Anonymous

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Like that. It's all right. It's not all right. It's right.

The Bible, at the end of the day, is a very human book.

Very often one "pushes away" the very thing that one most wants to grab, like a lover. This is a common, although distressing, psychological mechanism, having to do (in my opinion) with the fact that what is presented is not presented "purely", that there is a little canker or grim place in it somewhere.

Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

Bruce Wayne Y'see, my life is really com-PLEX.

Alas, the vices of man, as horrifying as they are presumed to be, contain proof (if only in their infinite expansiveness!) of his bent for the infinite.