Quotes About Complexity

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

Were you sad to leave Cambridge?" I asked her. She was, she said. Very sad. But she was also looking forward to being back in New York. "The world is complicated," she added. "You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

The world is complicated," she added. "You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

Everyone is flawed in their own interesting and individual ways. Our flaws help define our character.

Je zou een tweede hoofd moeten hebben om te begrijpen wat dat éne hoofd is, maar ik heb er maar een, hier is het in mijn handen, ik houd het vast op een manier waarop een mens nooit iets anders vasthoudt.

De twijfel zit in zijn werk als een breipatroon in een damesblad.

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

But if ever there was an argument to be made for the complex, it was sitting before him at this very moment.

There is no idea so right that there is nothing wrong about it, And nothing so wrong that there isn't something right about it. ~William Blake~

To generalize is to be an idiot.

Maybe this is what life is like - we try to see clearly but what we see is never clear and is never going to be. The more we strive the murkier it becomes. All we are left with are approximations, nuances, multitudes of plausible explanations. Take your pick.

profoundly complex systems

The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.

The fascination of what's difficult has dried the sap out of my veins and rent spontaneous joy and natural content out of my heart.

But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

It is natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, of a never-ending advance towards largeness and complexity in a word, towards us. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes an interesting side branch.

My own view is that, while Aurangzeb is certainly a more complex figure than his detractors allow, and that it is true that early in his career he did protect Brahmins, patronise Hindu institutions and Hindu noblemen, and that he consulted with Hindu astrologers and physicians to the end, he was still an unusually cold, ruthless and unpleasant character, and his aggression and charmlessness did do much to undermine the empire he worked so hard to keep together.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.