Quotes About Complexity

Era una mujer débil frente a las cosas. Todo le parecía a veces demasiado preciso, imposible de ser tocado. Y, a veces, lo que usaban como aire de respirar era peso de muerte para ella. Vea si comprende a mi heroína, tía, escuche. Es voluble y audaz. No ama, no es amada. [...] Sin embargo, lo que hay dentro de Juana es algo más fuerte que el amor que se da y lo que hay dentro de ella exige más que el amor que se recibe.

Animal life boils down to this pursuit of pleasure after all. Human life is more complex: it boils down to the pursuit of pleasure, to fear of it, and above all to the dissatisfaction of the time in between. What I'm saying is a little simplistic, but it doesn't matter for now. Do you understand? All yearning is pursuit of pleasure. All remorse, pity, benevolence, is fear of it. All despair and seeking alternative routes are dissatisfaction. There you have it in a nutshell, if you wish.

Aunque en el fondo no quisiera comprender. Sabía que aquello era imposible y todas las veces había pensado que si había comprendido era por haber comprendido mal. Comprender era siempre un error - prefería la vastedad amplia y libre y sin errores del no-entender. Era malo, pero, al menos, se sabía que se estaba en plena condición humana.

Não sabia que, somando as compreensões, eu amava. Não sabia que somando, as incompreensões, é que se ama verdadeiramente. Porque eu, só por ter tido carinho, pensei que amar é fácil.

Do I not have a plot to my life? for I am unexpectedly fragmentary.

En definitiva, en esa búsqueda del placer está resumida la vida animal. La vida humana es más compleja: se resume en la busca del placer, en su temor, y sobre todo en la insatisfacción de los intervalos.

Animal life boils down to this pursuit of pleasure after all. Human life is more complex: it boils down to the pursuit of pleasure, to fear of it, and above all to the dissatisfaction of the time in between.

The university has become the multiversity and the nature of the presidency has followed this change…. The president of the multiversity is leader, educator, wielder of power, pump; he is also officeholder, caretaker, inheritor, consensus seeker, persuader, bottleneck. But he is mostly a mediator.

All women are fatal. But maybe all men are fatal too, to almost all women? I say maybe, and I say almost. What do we know about the other sex?

this nation is both its credits and debits.

It strikes me that what the attack on the World Trade Center stole from us is our willingness to be complex. Or what the attack on the World Trade Center revealed to us is that we were never complex. We might want to believe that we can condemn and we can love and we can condemn because we love our country, but that's too complex.

Debemos ser capaces —algo extremadamente difícil— de decir no sólo sí o no a una determinada realidad y también a las personas amadas, sino que es necesario continuar amándolas incluso condenando sus acciones y continuar condenando sus acciones aunque sin dejar de amarlas.

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity and thereby giving rise neogenetically to emergent properties.

A picture may be worth a thousand words but it needs a thousand words to describe a picture.

Complexities of life originate from the curiousity of men about innovations. And from these innovations that brought new discoveries and inventions caused men's health to propagate complexity.

Humans are not like dogs which can only see either black or white.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. —EGON FRIEDELL,

Leaving aside the consideration that academics might always favour poetic difficulty—it makes them indispensable—

the damaging notion that obscure is the way philosophy should sound.