Quotes About Complexity

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have—people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

I think you're decent.' 'Maybe, maybe not. One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have—people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives.

Eres una persona horrible. Eres una persona maravillosa. -Bueno, ¿cuál de las dos? -¿Por qué no entiendes que la respuesta es ambas?

A game of chess, then, where all the pieces are invisible!" "If you like," said Greyson.

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

Você aprende uma coisa depois de ter vivido tanto quanto eu vivi: as pessoas não são completamente boas nem completamente ruins. A gente passa a vida toda entrando e saindo das sombras e da luz. Neste momento eu estou feliz por estar na luz.

aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

Love is the finest and foulest thing in the world. It will drive a man to greatness even while driving him into despair.

One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have —people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

You must find us binary people strange and confusing." "I did when I was younger. I never met someone born to a single gender until I was well into my teens. But I've come to accept, and even appreciate, your quirky rigidity.

Our choices are not easy- nor should they be.

Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But it isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Entweder geschehen die Dinge aus einem bestimmten Grund oder sie geschehen einfach so. Entweder ist das Leben eines Menschen ein Faden in einem prächtigen Teppich oder die Menschheit ist einfach nur ein hoffnungslos verheddertes Knäuel. Miracolina hat immer an den Teppich geglaubt, und jetzt schätzt sie sich glücklich, dass sie einen Blick in seine kleinste Ecke erhaschen durfte.

Bottom line: I don't believe anyone who says they got the answers to society's ills because society's ills mutate faster than the flu

The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are well-educated -- is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambigous or even contradictory situations -- in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.

How difficult it is to understand each other, my dear angel, and how much thought is incommunicable, even between people who love each other!

So you see how difficult it is to understand one another, my dear angel, how incommunicable thought is, even between two people in love.

The act of love greatly resembles torture or surgery.

Il caos intero piombò in quell'intelligenza (tout le chaos ruola dans cette intelligence)

Qu'est-ce que le cerveau humain, sinon un palimpseste immense et naturel?

Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.