Quotes about Complexity
The complete, the true Mrs Whatsit, Meg realized, was beyond human understanding. What she saw was only the game Mrs Whatsit was playing; it was an amusing and charming game, a game full of both laughter and comfort, but it was only the tiniest facet of all the things Mrs Whatsit could be.
— Madeleine L'Engle
one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
— Madeleine L'Engle
L'amore è una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcuno solo perchè amiamo noi stessi, per egoismo, avidità , desiderio fisico, brama di dominare l'oggetto d'amore e asservirlo; o al contrario, per desiderio di asservirci e essere dominati dal nostro amante, e in fondo l'amore assomiglia all'odio e gli è più prossimo di quanto non si pensi normalmente.
— Amos Oz
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
— Anais Nin
Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.
— Samuel Johnson
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
— John Donne
She is all states, and all princes, I. Nothing else is.
— John Donne
If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love
— John Donne
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
— Milan Kundera
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
— Bill Gates
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
— Oscar Wilde