Quotes About Complexity

No te puedes imaginar la cantidad de años en que mastiqué en silencio lo que sentía, lo que padecía, con todos mis complejos. Hasta que entendí que deshumanizarme era salvarme.

That's why I ca never be happy with simple, good people", she thought. "It isn't enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

That's why I can never be happy with simple, good people", she thought. "It isn't enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

Human beings, however, were different from apples and oranges: The flavor of the peel did not reliably predict the taste of the pulp.

Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment. Perhaps such decisions are paving stones on the road to Hell; if so, my route is well paved, and the welcoming committee all ready knows my name.

I believe our recognition of reality's complex dimensions is a consequence of our solitude.

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be. People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks. Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring.

La complexité humaine ne se réduit à aucun principe de causalité.

As it became clear to Shimamura that he had from the start wanted only this woman, and that he had taken his usual roundabout way of saying so, he began to see himself as rather repulsive and the woman as all the more beautiful

Supongo que en una mujer hasta el odio es una forma del amor.

What of it? Tokyo people are complicated. They live in such noise and confusion that their feelings are broken to little bits." "Everything is broken to little bits.

Una persona sabia es aquella que sabe cómo hacer simples los asuntos más complicados.

A wise person is one who knows how to make complicated matters simple.

Technocrats tell us we can't go backward, we can't refuse technology, because then we won't progress. We are told that life is increasingly complex, that's the way it is […] If this is all true, then we are doomed. Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward; rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

How much longer on the divan? Why does sex have to mean everything? OK, it can mean something, but why everything? Why do thirty years have to go down the toilet because I wanted to touch somebody else? Am I missing something? Is this what it comes down to? Why does the sex have to mean everything?

As a fact it was, in my mind, at one and the same time absolutely true and obviously untrue, and perhaps only children are able to accommodate double-faced facts like these.

If novelists know anything it's that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioral possibilities. They are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conducting.

Life is complex, conceptually dominated by binaries but never wholly contained by them.

Bitter struggles deform their participants in subtle, complicated ways. The idea that one should speak one's cultural allegiance first and the truth second (and that this is a sign of authenticity) is precisely such a deformation.