“All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUsedTurnsMoralTransformationChaosSimplicityComplicatedAll TimeMassiveElegantRapidsArchetypeTimes Are Changing Book:Tales from Earthsea Source: Tales from Earthsea
“Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.” ThinkingMenTryingHeartUseProblemTurnsEnemyDangerWeakSimplicityComplicatedSolveHeroicAdversariesCapturedFleeingShatteringImposterArtilleryWeak ManProwling Author:Georges Bernanos
“Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.” KnowsTurnsLanguageTalentDepthSimplicitySurfacePhrasesTwinsMundaneLuminousEmbeddedTranslatorsSensingReverberation Author:Ali Smith
“However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.” BelieveReasonTurnsI BelieveProcessCasesForeverDoubtAtheismTheoryLimitsComplexesSimplicityPositive AtheismSufficientAppropriateTreatmentYieldTheoreticalCriteriaSelectRelativityGeneral Relativity Author:Albert Einstein
“The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.” MenWorldHumansWellsChildrenAgeTurnsSidesWiseUniversalInstinctSimplicityHuman LifeGood ManTruestContainingBad ManAffirmingInquisitive Book:Pierre or The Ambiguities Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities