Quotes About Complexity

Alas, the human mind is a perverse, uncontrollable organ,

does not sound 'quite simple' to me," I said. "It sounds inordinately complicated.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

You forget that everyone you meet, everyone in the world, is a human being stuck in the same predicament, trying with their imperfect intellect to make sense of this immensely complicated firmament.

Louis Eliopulos, who works on cold cases for the Naval Criminal Investigator's Service, is fond of saying, "If they were easy cases they would have been solved already.

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

Bints are the very devil to understand.

The human mind is so complex that many different theories can be constructed, all of which seem to be logical, coherent, and explain major facts of observation, yet at the same time are mutually incompatible or actually contradict each other.

We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Truth is too multi-faceted to be contained in a five-line summary.

Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.

Because everything is interdependent, there are no simple, single causes and effects. Every action creates not just an equal and opposite reaction, but a web of reverberating consequences.

je mehr sich einer begrenzt, um so mehr ist er andererseits dem Unendlichen nah; gerade solche scheinbar Weltabseitigen bauen in ihrer besonderen Materie sich termitenhaft eine merkwürdige und durchaus einmalige Abbreviatur der Welt.

playing chess against oneself is thus as paradoxical as jumping over one's own shadow.

Ä°lk kez iyiliÄŸin ve kötülüÄŸün insan?n içinde yaratabileceÄŸi haz ad?na ne varsa hepsini hissettim, fakat benim nerelere vard???m? asla bilemeyeceksiniz, beni asla tan?yamayacaks?n?z: Ey siz insanlar, siz benim s?rr?m? nereden bileceksiniz!

Önümden birkaç güzel kad?n geçti, ince kuma??n alt?nda her ad?mda titreyen göÄŸüslerine cüretkârca, fakat içten bir hayranl?k duymadan bakarken kendilerini böyle küstahça ç?plaklaÅŸt?r?lm?? ve küçümsenmiÅŸ hissettiklerinde sergiledikleri s?k?nt? ve haz kar???m? utangaçl?k kar??s?nda içimden güldüm.

setting out to play against oneself in chess represents therefore the same sort of paradox as a man jumping over his own shadow.

For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with a wild poetry, that they read all kinds of meanings into comparatively simple actions, especially the actions of other people, who do not live intensely and with a wild poetry.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It is a mystery at an immediate level in the sense that no person is entirely knowable.