Complexes Quotes · Page 43

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony…

— Epes Sargent

If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists…

— Peter Medawar

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him…

— Frantz Fanon

I used to live with two other guys. We used to cook two things. The first one was called 'cheese... thing' and…

— Dylan Moran

President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our…

— Ralph Nader

There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single…

— Carl Jung

Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks…

— Henry Louis Gates

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.

— Kim Nam-joon

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly…

— Rick Moody

Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous.…

— Gilberto Gil

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would…

— Steve Saint

Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul…

— Gaston Bachelard

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex…

— Susan Sontag

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand…

— Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact…

— Joseph Boyden

Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want…

— Ryan Phillippe

I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and…

— Liz Garbus

China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions…

— Mike Lee

Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate…

— Terence McKenna

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

— David Frum

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me…

— Michael Helm

Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

— Gerald Stern

In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie…

— John Green