“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 systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.” IfsWorldEndsSufferingBeliefUnderstandingLogicHumbleCertaintyUncertaintyComplexityAssumptionReasoningBelief SystemsOntology Author:Moby
“I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at audiences' willingness to handle complexity. In some sense, I feel like my belief in what people are capable of is being validated.” PeopleFeelsBeliefAudienceHappenedCapableAverageComplicatedHandleComplexityWillingness Author:Michael Loceff
“Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought” MindHumansHas BeensFactsBeliefCommonTheoryDevelopmentBuiltCarefulFirmDawnFeaturesComplexityShakesReachingPhenomenonInvestigationAnthropologyProceedingHuman ThoughtFirm Beliefs Book:A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 Source: A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911
“A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.” BelieveMayFactsMotherBeliefFateComplexityComfortingUfoStraightforwardAtlantis Author:Bradley Denton
“By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.” MayIndividualBeliefGivenObjectsPureDegreesEssenceUniversalRelationDefinitionsComplexity Author:George Santayana