Quotes About Complexity

every man is tabernacled in every other, and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.

It's all right to say that the reason we cant fully grasp the quantum world is because we didnt evolve in that world.

Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself.

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.

Yo creo que la verdad siempre es simple. Y lo es por fuerza. Tiene que ser lo bastante simple para que la entienda un niño.

Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.

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

I was a born classicist and my heroes were never saints but killers.

If our world is regulated by reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of Darwin; or reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of religious dogma; you end up being childishly anti-scientific, and childishly anti-religious, and you miss the very complex interaction [they share]

Love didn't deserve the nice reputation it had.

Life is so simple when you're young, though of course that's not what it feels like to the young.

Belive you me, this maze is a labrinth!

Verwandtschaft ist eben keine Garantie für Liebe.

Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

They're kids. If they understood risks, they wouldn't join uprisings and march in the streets and the world would be a simpler place. Not a better one, of course. But simpler.

Gandhi admitted to beating his wife. He was a great man, but not a saint." He swallowed. "No one mentions that Gandhi had all that violence inside him. I think it makes him better, because it means that his way wasn't just some natural instinct he was born with. It was something he battled for, in his own mind, every day.

Sometimes hard problems don't have easy solutions.

But beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily coexist.

They wouldn't do it. They're kids. If they understood risks, they wouldn't join uprisings and march in the streets and the world would be a simpler place. Not a better one, of course. But simpler.

I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.

it never comes down to a single thing you did or didn't do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn't.

When I think of Henry and Oliver and Mike, I feel as if they are three different models - templates, almost - and I wonder if they are the only three in the world: the man who is with you completely, the man who is with you but not with you, the man who will get as close to you as he can without ever becoming yours. It would be arrogant to claim no other dynamics exist just because I haven't experienced them, but I have to say that I can't imagine what they are. I hope that I am wrong.

People are complicated, she continued, and the ones who aren't are boring. Then maybe I'm boring. We looked at each other, and in a genuinely sad voice, she said, Maybe you are.

He seemed simultaneously like a stranger and someone she knew extremely well; there was either an enormous amount to say or nothing at all.