Quotes About Complexity

The ways in which women both love and support one another, and mistrust and betray and undermine one another, may be the most complex thing in the universe.

Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.

One of the lessons of Auschwitz is that it is infinitely harder to grasp the mind of an ordinary person than to understand the mind of a Spinoza or Dante.

I have always understood that there is a kind of philosophical language which is only accessible to special philosophers

Da un sacco di tempo tutti si affannano a cercare di capire il motivo della loro estinzione. Si chiedono perché questi animali che dominavano il mondo di colpo siano scomparsi. Forse fra tutte le spiegazioni la più valida è anche la più semplice. Forse sono morti perché sono impazziti tutti quanti. Proprio come noi. Ecco cosa siamo, nient'altro che dei piccoli dinosauri. E la nostra pazzia prima o poi sarà la causa della nostra fine.

Todas las ciencias se reducen a la física, y la física se puede ahora reducir a una sola fórmula.

Lumea ni se pare r?u întocmit?; viaÈ›a - lipsit? de grandoare, gândirea ne face impresia unei intenÈ›ii r?mase la jum?tatea drumului, unui gest abia schiÈ›at, unui desen negru È™i confuz pe care nimeni nu l-a dezvoltat în fresc?.

Câte vieÅ£i sunt într-o via??, câÅ£i oameni într-un om.

I have spent a great deal of time seeking documentary evidence which would support or contradict the Stangls' story of how they, and others like them, escaped from Europe; and the real facts, it turns out, are neither dramatic nor unequivocal; they are complex, ambiguous and merely prove again that in the final analysis, history is not made by organizations, but by individual men, with individual failings, and individual responsibilities

uma forma de ingenuidade catastrófica: a ideia de que se possa cumprir o seu dever, de que um homem que se precipita na espiral dos deveres possa um dia vir a concluí-los em vez de os ver multiplicar

Era anche troppo facile pensare che fosse quella l'arma che aveva ucciso monna Vana, troppo facile. Ma d'altra parte non erano i maestri di Francia, i filosofi che tenevano lezione nel vicolo degli Strami a Parigi, a insegnarci che la causa semplice è regina sulla causa complessa? E che la Natura, oltre che del vuoto, ha parimenti orrore dell'inutile complessità?

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

Nothing is the whole story. The self's curse – and the writer's.

There were so many things I liked. That was the awful thing about being alive: there were so many things one liked. The awful thing about life was that there were so many things m full stop.

It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident - everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much . . .

Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.

I can't read Mason & Dixon , since my mind's so shitty, I can't process it!

Why? Why indeed. It was a sticky, impossible question and I didn't know how to answer it. How far back did I have to go to find the place where our roads diverged? How could I explain that sometimes a thousand little things added up to something so big it had the power to crush a relationship.

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.

What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides. Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two, and those who don't.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good." Somerset Maugham.