How odious a virtue the much praised simplicity. The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex — not that which never has divined it.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about — you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer — and therefore, when differences are sufficiently far reaching, we try to kill the other man rather than let him have his way. But that is perfectly consistent with admitting that, so far as appears, his grounds are just as good as ours.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.