Quotes About Complexity

A character like his disintegrates under analysis. It can only be defined by the anecdote, the chance encounter or the sentence overheard.

Fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good.

What if—is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes—the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?

God' as reference to long-term pattern we can't decipher.

only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand.

Psychology is a terrible a word.

I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between 'good' and 'bad' as you. For me: that line is often false. The two are never disconnected. One can't exist without the other. As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.

never the way it seems—all good, all bad.

The world is much stranger than we know or can say.

Nothing is black and white. There are no universal standards that determine what's good and what's evil. It's subjective.

In the analysis of books, as in the analysis of complex world events, we hover between two kinds of error: ascribing too much meaning where there is little, if any, to be found, and ignoring meaning that stares us right in the face.

It is poor philosophy to say we will believe nothing unless we can understand everything!

I propose that complex systems cannot be controlled or even predicted; first world nations' leaders only perform in a political theater of public deception; someone is at the helm and everything will be fine, just be a good citizen or subject and go back to your favorite sitcom, football team, or reality TV program.

Life is complicated, love isn't. If you need to think about it for one half second, you're not in love.

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

Even the darkest of villans-can have a hero's heart.

Ela é gorda, bela, voraz, gulosa, indecisa e lambuzona.

Keel on kompromiss, et kirjeldada piiratud arvu märkidega lõputult muutlikku maailma.

Why does everything have to be so complicated?" Kira complained. "Everything is simple," Alera said. "Doing it is complicated.

The human mind is a strange and wonderful thing," he said reflectively, "but I'm not sure it will ever figure itself out. Everything else, maybe—from sub-atomic particles to the universe—except itself.

If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.

I will never to the end of my days ever begin to understand my fellow human beings.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

There were so many hidden realities in the world, so many secret lives. It seemed like nobody lived just one.