Quotes About Complexity

you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

We have words but sometimes they're not enough.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Dar adev?rul nu st? într-un singur fapt. AÈ™a cum un om nu are doar cutare vârst?, atâtea kilograme, cutare în?lÈ›ime È™i culoare a ochilor È™i a p?rului. Un om este toate acestea, plus înc? ceva. Iar acest ceva e mai important decât toate acestea. Tot astfel, adev?rul e un num?r de fapte, plus înc? ceva. Întotdeauna. Faptele singure nu sunt niciodat? întreg adev?rul.

I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.