Quotes About Complexity

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Nature loves to hide.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

Thoughts have unique beauties you will never able to express it in words.

I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once.

Unhappiness is complicated and has many different causes, but happiness is simple and has only one reason.

Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

Learning to be complex is easy, but learning to be simple is most difficult.

Problems are very complicated when you don't know the solutions.

When I tried to understand consciousness, I found out how simple it was, but we try to make it so complicated.

Time endorses the complexities of a zeigarnik mind!

Dear Sigmund, Multiple Personality Disorder is a much discussed topic in my one bedroom bedsit."Signed....Thomas, Jane, Ralf, Tom, Toomey and Spot

Nothing is ever black and white, Nila. You should know that bu now. Its all how you survive the grey." -Kes