Quotes About Complexity

Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing is a simple way.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don't know the first thing about them.

what really distinguishes us from apes is not the opposable thumb but the ability to hold in mind opposing ideas, a distinction we should probably try to preserve.

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Depth answers only to depth .

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

It is a place that 'grows upon you' every day. There seems to be always something to find out in it. There are the most extraordinary alleys and by-ways to walk about in. You can lose your way (what a comfort that is, when you are idle!) twenty times a day, if you like; and turn up again, under the most unexpected and surprising difficulties. It abounds in the strangest contrasts; things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful, and offensive, break upon the view at every turn.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is consituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

It had more corners in it than the brain of an obstinate man;

I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning—and evidently does—quite opposite to my intention.

Es un hecho maravilloso y digno de reflexionar sobre él, que cada uno de los seres humanos es un profundo secreto para los demás.

Jarndyce mot Jarndyce maler videre. Dette fugleskremselet av en rettssak er med tiden blitt så innfløkt at det ikke er en levende sjel som vet hva den går ut på.

every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,

cada uno de los seres humanos es un profundo secreto para los demás.