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.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

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.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

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.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

She is all states, and all princes, I. Nothing else is.

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

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.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.