Complexity Quotes

613 quotes by 504 authors

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity. — Juliana Hatfield
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must… — Robert Breault
Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax. — Max Baucus
As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the… — Clive Barker
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it. — Susan Sontag
Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because… — Duane Michals
Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity — Leslie Orgel
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors? — Richard Louv
The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the… — Richard Neal
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief… — Moby
In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's… — Jeremy Sisto
It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex… — Jeremy Sisto
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where… — Whitley Strieber
Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities… — Frederick Lenz
Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability. — Ben Marcus
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first… — Paul Davies
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex… — Terry Eagleton

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