Lawrence Klein (1920–2013) American economist
"Keynsianism Again: Interview with Lawrence Klein", Challenge (May-June 2001)
“Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.”
— Livy
Book XXVI, sec. 11
History of Rome
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Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)
“Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”
Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
As quoted in Backstabbing for Beginners : My Crash Course in International Diplomacy (2008) by Michael Soussan, p. 316
“Whoever knows many things
By nature is a poet.”
Pindar book Olympic Odes
Olympian 2, line 87; page 16; the Greek simply says:
"wise is one who knows much by nature," but σοφός is Pindar's usual word for poet.
Variant translations:
Inborn of nature's wisdom
The poet's truth.
Olympian Odes (476 BC)
“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VII, 11
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“Things are much more complicated.”
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
Quotes from interviews, Sydney Morning Herald interview (2003)
Context: Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.
I have become, you might call it mature — I would call it senile — and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.