Quotes About Complexity

16. I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Love is just a word that we've chosen to use to describe something that we can't fully explain. I mean, it's like, as a culture, we've just all agreed on using the term, but I think people get so caught up in the word that they don't allow themselves the privilege to live out what it actually might be.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Now she has, although it's a difficult relationship.

You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

A nuclear reactor is a proposed solution to the energy problem. But like all big-technological solutions, this one solves a single problem by causing many... A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense.

Tell you," he said, "there ain't a way in this world to know what a human creature is going to do next.

War prevails over peace, I imagine, finally because it brings an apparently simple end to the great burden of civilized thought.

The solution, many times more complex and difficult, would be to go beyond our ideas, obviously insane, of war as the way to peace and of permanent damage to the ecosphere as the way to wealth.

It was as though I knew without exactly knowing, or felt, or smelled in the air, the already accomplished fact that nothing would ever be simple for me again. I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me.

their vulnerabilities, while different, may be profound.

Paradox is a characteristic of truth.

The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?

The historian always oversimplifies, and hastily selects a manageable minority of facts and faces out of a crowd of souls and events whose multitudinous complexity he can never quite embrace or comprehend.

Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization.