Multifaceted Reality Quotes

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

The truth is always multiplex.

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

…In the human and social sciences it is well to be aware above all of the plurality of methods and viewpoints, each of which reveals only one aspect of reality which is so complex that it defies simple and univocal explanation.

If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.