Quotes About Complexity

Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this

Ser modernos es vivir una vida de paradojas y contradicciones.

Nuestra predilección por un universo en orden convierte en muy tentadoras para nosotros esas simples soluciones ficticias. Las verdades complejas son difíciles de asimilar para nuestras mentes: nos resulta mucho más fácil incinerar a la bruja que mantener la esperanza en un mundo que no está hecho para el deleite humano.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.

El amor me resulta difícil. Y al amor yo le resulto difícil.

Love finds me difficult.

London is full of short stories, long stories, epics, farces, sit-coms, soaps and squibs, walking round hand in hand.

the problem with philosophy problems is that they don't have proper solutions

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.

It's never the same, drinking with your father," said Yevgeny and poured himself another vodka. "It's like kissing your sister; your heart isn't in it.

Why didn't you tell me? It's all such a complicated mess." "Most lives are if you live long enough, my darling." "I've

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people at different times and under different circumstances and influences. And always growing, always creating themselves anew. How impossible it was to know another human being. How impossible to know even oneself.

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?, she said, I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up.

Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?

We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same.

Stangerson too!" he muttered. "The plot thickens.

while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty

How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

It is a tangled skein, you understand, and I am looking for a loose end.

Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.