Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments… — Jacob T. Schwartz Copy Share Image
I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike.… — Dorian Yates Copy Share Image
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex. — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
