Quotes About Complexity

Lexi had learned the truth about love then, how close it could be to hate, and how it could empty you out.

this little girl will love you as no one ever has Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and make you crazy and try your soul. Often all at the same time.

Perhaps the most complicated things are also the most beautiful.

Her mother lived in a world of black and white, and Eva knew that neither of those colors existed, not really; it was all a spectrum of gray.

Ben has never really known me. He knew the pieces I chose to give to him, the body that nursed him, the voice that scolded him, the hands that soothed him. But there is so much more to me, pieces that had nothing to do with my role as his mother, pieces I never let him see.

Yona shook her head. "He sees me as more than I am, I think." "No. He sees you for exactly who you are. And that is very difficult for him.

moral calculus isn't reducible to actual calculus

i'm worse at what i do best.

Bemerkung: Sonderbarerweise sind auch die Tatsachen, welche wir absolut sicher wissen (2 + 2 = 4, ich heiße Kurt) aus Begriffen zusammengesetzt, die wir nicht vollkommen verstehen (und die sehr kompliziert sind). 2 Erklärungen dafür: 1.) Das Einfache in der Welt sind die Tatschen und nicht die Begriffe. 2.) Diese sicheren Tatschen sind so, dass sie bei einem sehr weiten Spielraum von möglichen Interpretationen für Begriffe gelten.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

I think being an adult must be confusing as hell.

A lot of people say they want to leave this city to go somewhere else. Not me. I love this place for what it is. Ugly and pretty. Rough and tender. Chaotic and smooth. Loving and murderous. All of it.

Human nature can't be denied, sir. The world is so complex that the average person is no longer able to understand it. In the face of that, they can be counted on to retreat into tribalism. Nationalism. People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And it's the internal threats—the people they interact with every day—whom they hate and fear most.

For all its size and sophistication, even the American military was capable of little more than a lengthy string of elaborate failures.

Puesto que se enteraría por su propia experiencia de que el jardín era el perfeccionamiento supremo de la idea del jardín, ya que la mejor forma de definirlo era afirmar que su creador había "alcanzado la simplicidad", al tratarse de un jardín, escribía el autor con notable apasionamiento, que expresaba lo infinitamente simple mediante fuerzas infinitamente complejas.

bureaucracy is trouble everybody has. It's a system evolved so that nobody in it is ever responsible for anything.

She now knew that it was possible to love two people at once—because you could love them in different ways.

Nothing that's worth anything is ever simple. That's what makes it worth it

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

It is far easier to know men than to know man.

Ils ont treize noms pour nommer le palmier, et le palmier n'est pas nommé.

Es necesario amarlo todo, incluso lo más repugnante. El amor es lo más arduo, lo más cruel. En eso radica el misterio: lo más repugnante se diluye en el amor con mayor facilidad que lo que resulta desagradable solo a medias

the history of ethics and aesthetics,—all these and many other matters remain obscure.