Quotes About Complexity

The less comprehensible he was, the more responsible he was held to be. Here was no lightweight.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.

Entre les jeunes mariés ça va trop bien ou ça va trop mal. Et je ne sais pas lequel vaut le mieux. Mais ça ne va jamais tout seul.

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

We never know that one particular set of ideas contains all the right answers; even if it does today, it might not be equipped to face unexpected challenges tomorrow.

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As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Latent structure is master of obvious structure

The historian is never more himself than when he is searching his mind for a general statement that shall in itself give the hint of its own underlying complexity.

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

He [Lyndon Baines Johnson]turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

In einer Welt, die unübersichtlich geworden ist, wächst das Bedürfnis nach der Geordnetheit des Krippleins.

Evolution is a great word but it turns its back on difficulties and sums up a rich and complicated reality under a vague formula.

Life often mocks every system; it is richer and fuller than the deepest thinker in all his wisdom can imagine.

Okay Libya...got all this stuff twirling around in my head

Love wasn't just a soft, easy thing of the senses. It was hard, deep, austere.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.