Quotes About Complexity

We know too much for one man to know too much.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.