Complex Quotes

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Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence. — Christoph Niemann
A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. — S. N. Behrman
There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only… — Gordon Bethune
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not… — Paramahansa Yogananda
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory… — Gaston Bachelard
Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer… — Lewis Mumford
The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays… — Christopher West
An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand. — Martin Rees
To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far)… — Max More
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we… — R. Buckminster Fuller
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in. — Julia Glass
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is… — Ernest Becker
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of… — Ernest Becker
But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only… — Silas House
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. — Remy de Gourmont
Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex… — Margaret Mahy
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world,… — Gaston Bachelard
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of… — Helen Keller
There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a… — Ricky Schroder
Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the… — Maxine Hong Kingston

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