Quotes About Complexity

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Understanding love is one of the hardest things in the world.

Ha notado que pasa con los mapas de carreteras lo mismo que con los periódicos, las camisas y las ideas peregrinas? Una vez desplegados, ya no hay quien vuelva a doblarlos.

The world's full of details, have you noticed? And since no detail is ever repeated in exactly the same shape and always sets off other details, there's no end to it.

There were discrepancies. Sometimes

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

to feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Der Wirklichkeit ist mit Logik nur zum Teil beizukommen.

OCTAVIA Mi van önben több, mint egy állatban? NEGRO DA PONTE A világ nagyszer?sége és iszonyata.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths—they haven't any.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

Ceux qui reprochent à nos ancêtres d'avoir été sottement crédules oublient, d'abord qu'on peut également être sottement incrédule, et ensuite qu'en fait de crédulité, il n'y a rien de tel que les illusions dont vivent les soi-disant destructeurs d'illusions ; car on peut remplacer une crédulité simple par une crédulité compliquée [...]

Quand on parle de civilisations, on fait volontiers valoir tels aspects fragmentaires, soit en bien soit en mal : on oublie que la civilisation chinoise n'est pas la déformation des pieds des femmes, et qu'un hôpital ou une route n'est pas une civilisation. Une civilisation est un monde, c'est-à-dire une totalité faite de compensations. Il n'y a pas d'organisme complexe sans quelques maux; la nature est là pour le prouver.

What you get when you try to understand the meaning of life intellectually is just one tiny slice of life. Even if you understand that tiny slice very thoroughly, you still won't really have understood the fullness of life.

Trying to understand the meaning of life in terms of the human brain's activities is like trying to understand the ocean by going to the shore and scooping out a bucket of water and analyzing it.

Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.

She understood somehow that she was lucky in her special way to love these events without the complicated, pressing question of physical love, to absorb life from the center and its periphery at once, so she could for a while take it all in with the sweet fullness of the entirely human and the utterly strange, without apprehension or fear.