Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Everything is deeply intertwingled.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

Reductionism is merciless.