Simply Connected Lie

Famous quotes containing the words simply, connected and/or lie:

“He is a thinker: which is to say, he knows how to take things more simply than they are.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)

“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.... The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)