Quotes about Complexity
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
— Oscar Wilde
Like some wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.
— Graham Greene
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
— Anonymous
There are mysteries about out love. Things that neither one of us may ever understand because love is an emotion without limit and understanding. We know we love each other but we could never explain completely as WHY we love each other. Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you probably could never get it back together again.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies..
— Mortimer Adler
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
— Mortimer Adler
I feel about John ['s gospel] like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her. (Following Jesus, p. 27.)
— NT Wright
Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.
— NT Wright
The biological structure of our bodies is not some evolutionary accident.
— Nancy Pearcey
And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate.
— Olga Tokarczuk
As the early church boasted rightly, the message of Jesus is both simple enough for a child to paddle in and deep enough for an elephant to swim in.
— Os Guinness