Complexity Quotes

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To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for… — John Updike
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world-… — Anne Rice
A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface… — Douglas Preston
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in… — Neil Gaiman
What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The… — Annie Dillard
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. — Don DeLillo
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external thingsâ€”property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his… — John Steinbeck
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of… — James A. Baldwin
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth… — Leo Tolstoy
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books… — Alberto Manguel
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other… — Robert A. Heinlein
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity. — Alfred North Whitehead
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. — Joyce Carol Oates
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the… — Adrienne Rich
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as… — Terry Tempest Williams
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me… — Toni Morrison

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