Complexity Quote by Yuval Levin Download Open image ““[T]heories inevitably can't be as complex as life itself.”” — Yuval Levin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complexity Life Life itself Politics Theories
“...[T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living.” — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“[T]hese instances are enough to show, that the body can by the sole laws of its nature do many things which the mind wonders… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Life is not complex. It is made to be complex. Complex issues are developed around simple issues.” — Shiv Kumar Copy Share Image
“Though never as complex as we fear, life is also never as simple as we might wish.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.” — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy,” Burke wrote in the Reflections, “which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle,” Burke writes.” — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that behind the… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Burke argued that political parties were not, as many people insisted, factions each contending for its own particular advantage, but rather were bodies of… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Believe me, sir,” he writes in the Reflections, “those who attempt to level never equalize. In all societies consisting of various descriptions of citizens,… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Burke was not a sentimentalist, however.43 “Leave a man to his passions,” he wrote, “and you leave a wild beast to a savage and… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“The idea of forcing every thing to an artificial equality has something, at first view, very captivating in it,” Burke writes. “It has all… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“The middle layers of society, where people see each other face to face, offer a middle ground between radical individualism and extreme centralization. Our… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative for him.… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“The government of human beings, he argued, is a matter not of applying cold rules and principles, but of tending to warm sentiments and… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie. — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image