Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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

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

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

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

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

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

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

There's a dark side to everything.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.