Quotes About Complexity

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.