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Colin Wilson: "The complex develops out of the simple." #Simplicity

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Terry Eagleton: "All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that." #Simplicity

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David Bohm: "What I mean by 'thought' is the whole thing — thought, 'felt', the body, the whole society sharing thoughts — it's all one process. It is essential for me not to break that up, because it's all one process; somebody else's thought becomes my thought, and vice versa. Therefore it would be wrong and misleading to break it up into my thought, your thought, my feelings, these feelings, those feelings. I would say that thought makes what is often called in modern language a system. A system means a set of connected things or parts. But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent — not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence. A corporation is organized as a system — it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on. Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society — as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began. But with the growth of civilization it has developed a great deal. It was probably very simple thought before civilization, and now it has become very complex and ramified and has much more incoherence than before. Now, I say that this system has a fault in it — a 'systematic fault'. It is not a fault here, there or here, but it is a fault that is all throughout the system. Can you picture that? It is everywhere and nowhere. You may say "I see a problem here, so I will bring my thoughts to bear on this problem". But "my" thought is part of the system. It has the same fault as the fault I'm trying to look at, or a similar fault. Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn’t notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates." #Simplicity

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H L Mencken: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." #Simplicity

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Alan Mackay: "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." #Simplicity

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Remy de Gourmont: "Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." #Simplicity

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Oscar Wilde: "Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex." #Simplicity

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Warren Buffett: "The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective." #Simplicity

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Oscar Wilde: "I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." #Simplicity

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John Gall: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works." #Simplicity

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Colin Wilson: "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." #Mind

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Colin Wilson: "In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle." #Law and Lawyers

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Colin Wilson: "A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors." #Music

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Colin Wilson: "The complex develops out of the simple." #Simplicity

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Colin Wilson: "Anyone who can understand that the Buddhist idea of Nirvana is not merely negative, and that the Buddha himself who (like the Superman) 'looks down on suffering humanity like a hillsman on the planes' is not an atheistic monster, will instantly see how this misses the point. Nietzsche was not an atheist, any more than the Buddha was. Anyone who reads the Night Song and the Dance Song in Zarathustra will recognize that they spring out of the same emotion as the Vedic or Gathic hymns or the Psalms of David. The idea of the Superman is a response to the need for salvation in precisely the same way that Buddhism was a response to the 'three signs'." #Atheism

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Colin Wilson: "Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic." #Death and Dying

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Colin Wilson: "I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest." #Infatuation

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Colin Wilson: "Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious." #AIDS

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