#complex

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#individuality #insight #issues #learning #life

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#desire #love

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#complex #foundations #freedom #his way #i

Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#atlantis-complex #eoin-colfer #orion-fowl #focus

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#defending #does #duty #guilt #itself

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#because #complex #differ #even #greater

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#most #relationship

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#complex #cover #frank #i #i think

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#attack #complex #controlling #damage #desired