Quotes About Complexity

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

Human faces are such a world!

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.