Quotes About Complexity

Love takes its meaning from the mainfold ways in which it is used; which are indefinite in number. You can never understand its menaing fully because you can never experience love in all its context. And so it is energy and entropy.

Behind every great story there's always another story.

The High Plains settler (myth obscures) a truth that is more complex and less immediately satisfying but embraces, as the stereotype does not, all of what it means to be human.

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

London as cell, jail, and favor. London meant "not living in England while living in England,

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

In practice, science is often guided by a search for unifying ideas that are as simple as possible and that connect many different observations with as few explanations as possible.

Media is an assemblage of tools with which to expand an audience's conception of what "the world" is to such and extent that their own lives and capabilities seem utterly insignificant; a means of psychological warfare by which people are overloaded with information and desensitized to their own and others' suffering; the sum of all means by which human beings reduce the infinite complexity of reality to a dead-end maze of abstractions.

La naturaleza es más barroca; siempre le sobra o le falta algo, como al elefante o a la jirafa.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

the environmental consequences of our actions today are so large, powerful, and long-lived that they cannot be fully understood from a mere century-scale point of view.

He'd always known that Samantha Dark was like her name. She wasn't meant for a normal life, that fake life of smiles and perfect days. There was more inside of her, a twisting, snaking dark, an understanding, even a need to explore the tainted side of life.

humans, ah, humans I get right every time." And her

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

It is seldom that any judge really gets to the bottom of a case. The well of truth is usually too deep for the merely judicial plumb-line.

I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, life always spills over the parameters of how anyone has chosen to define it.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Contradiction is an inseparable part of the human condition, and that suffices as a source of miraculousness.

They had all seen her differently, thought Bel, but really and truly that was not as queer as it seemed, for of course human beings are composite mixtures of good and bad qualities and show entirely different aspects of their personalities to different people.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.

I find that most channeled discourses possess the spiritual and philosophical sophistication of a Dick-and-Jane book.

interested in Barbara, whom, after eighteen months of daily contact, he was just beginning to know. The strangest thing about Barbara, Arthur reflected, the strangest thing about this strange woman who was now his lawful wedded wife, was that although she understood practically nothing, she yet understood everything.

Anne could not explain. It was always difficult for Anne to explain things even when they were clear to herself, and in this case she scarcely knew what she meant.