Quotes About Simplicity

The more perfect a nature is, the fewer means it requires for its operation.

Jesus Christ, you people are complicated.

God give me, he prayed, a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.

Meat may go up in price — it has done — but books won't. Admission to picture galleries and concerts and so forth will remain quite low. The views from Richmond Hill or Hindhead, or along Pall Mall at sunset, the smell of the earth, the taste of fruit and of kisses — these things are unaffected by the machinations of trusts and the hysteria of stock exchanges.

the best things in life aren't things

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

The Dean's complaining to his Faculty. "Why do you scientists need such expensive equipment? Why can't you be like the Math Department, which only needs a blackboard and a wastepaper basket? Better still, like the Department of Philosophy. That doesn't even need a wastepaper basket…

though surprising and frequently challenged, appeared to be accurate, for simps were quite happy to work fifteen hours a day and did not get bored by the most menial and repetitious tasks.

The simplest solution is always best.

Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you.

Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback," said he. "I am." "I ought to make you sign a paper to that effect." "Why?" "Because in five minutes you will say that it is all so absurdly simple.

Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Any game plan? (Xypher) Don't die. (Sin) I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. (Xypher)

Life Infinite Beyond words, this no-thingness within, Which I've become. So to remain Only one thing's needed: Zen sitting. I think, breathe with my whole body - Marvellous. The joy's so pure, It's beyond lovemaking, anything. I can see, live anywhere, everywhere. I need nothing, not even life.

We can behold them. The sparrow stirs, The universe moves slightly.

I'm not going to give you a song and dance that I'm a great scholar, philosopher, or man of wealth.

How does the saying go? "Earning less and sleeping well is earning best.

The Ayurvedic route to great health involves two simple steps: 1. Doing less; 2. Being more.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

To live is enough.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Bazen bir puro, sadece bir purodur.

Wouldn't it be easier if we just named all the cats Password?