Quotes About Complexity

Estudiar la evolución cultural de la humanidad sin perderse en generalidades parece un proyecto megalómano, condenado al fracaso. No hace falta ser historiador para comprender que la

The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.

Although all those who fall in love do so in the same way, not all fall in love for the same reason. There is no single quality which is universally loved.

A única perspetiva falsa é a que pretende ser única.

El caso es que la realidad, como el paisaje, tiene infinitas perspectivas, todas ellas igualmente ciertas y auténticas. La única perspectiva falsa es la que afirma ser la única.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress".

First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention away from concrete realities. Idealizations tend to be partial and distorting, obscuring the heterogeneity and complexity of actual experiences and concrete practices, which is why they do not provide an adequate standpoint for the diagnosis of social problems and injustices.

Lo que me deprime es ver lo complicado que son los esquemas de la mentira.

There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.

in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.

Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results.

Wenn eine Gesellschaft nicht mit der Erschöpfung ihrer Ressourcen umgehen kann, drehen sich die wirklich interessanten Fragen um die Gesellschaft und nicht um die Ressource. Welche strukturellen, politischen, ideologischen oder wirtschaftlichen Faktoren in der Gesellschaft verhinderten eine angemessene Reaktion

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate; Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as wit.

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

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Never think you speak for all of yourself.

it is unfair to characterize the work of postmodernists as "bad writing," despite the fact that a lot of it is actually bad writing.

More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly with the intricacy and richness of the outside environment." The irony is that, "unlike the animals, whose cognitive powers have always been relatively deficient, we have created our own deficiency by constructing a radically more complex world.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

Never cut what you can untie

And our understanding of that motion remains fundamentally paradoxical.

Essa é uma das piores coisas que descobri sobre as emoções humanas e como elas podem ser muito traiçoeiras — o fato de que é possível odiar um lugar de todo coração e com toda a alma e ainda sentir saudade. Sem falar que é possível odiar uma pessoa de todo o coração e com toda a alma e ainda suspirar por ela.