Dennis Hastert Quotes

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

Terms are like shredded wheat - two are wonderful, but three might just be too many.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

I work best inundated with things, when it's like raining information.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.

Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

The order I found was the order of disorder

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.