Quotes About Complexity

I could try to tell you the story, but it would be like describing a cathedral by saying it's a pile of stones ending in a spire.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't have to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

Nichts, was in diesem Leben die mühe lohnt, ist einfach, Daniel.

En un universo infinito hay demasiadas cosas que se escapan a la comprensión humana

All our differences and similarities are vast and rich - their interplay is the fabric of all relating. It's hard to invent rules out of such complexity; we improvise as we learn about each other.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

Today, for me, her gender seemed a null, a promise, a projection screen; neither masculine nor feminine, or perhaps both at once?—but no less erotically powerful or compelling for the confusion I felt when I looked at her.

It can be seen as a discussion of the nature of evidence—the way in which there is no single truth about anyone's life, but as many truths as there are observers.

When we think of the past we tend to assume that people were simpler in their functions, and shaped by forces that were primary and irreducible.

Ah—that's the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do.

We are so deluded. We are in control of nothing whatsoever; not the weather, not the government, not the stock market, not traffic, barely our health and relationships, not the millions of decisions being made by people all over the world every second—all of which influence our lives in both unseen and all-too-apparent ways. We

I've come to realize that you can love someone but not like them

It doesn't cause me to doubt God's existence, but it does force me to admit there's a lot about God I don't understand.

It's not nice being inside my head. It's a nice place to visit but I don't want to live in here. It's too crowded; too many traps and pitfalls.

This conspiracy needs a flow chart

Ozzie arranged it, and more quickly than I would have thought possible. A million things could stall a plan like this.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

By the moonlight he watched his wife for the last time. His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.

Yet at the same time you almost might use the word loose instead of caught. Although they are two opposite words.

NIJO: I'm not a cheerful person, Marlene. I just laugh a lot.

Métis themes tend to come in strands that are closely woven together. In some aspects, it is difficult and inappropriate to separate these threads. (p.33)

caught up in the exciting world of adults and their antics

Odi et amo; quare fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. (my translation: I hate and I love, you ask why I do this, I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented)