Quotes About Simplicity

Tout ce qui n'est ni une couleur, ni un parfum, ni une musique, c'est de l'enfantillage

Tout ce qui n'est ni une couleur, ni un parfum, ni une musique, dit-il en comptant sur ses doigts, c'est de l'enfantillage. -Et une femme? protesta Lil. Sa femme? -Une femme, non, par conséquent, dit Wolf, puisque c'est au moins les trois.

Ockham's razor. The simplest explanation was usually correct. They

the more apparatus a magician carries about with him – coloured powders, stuffed cats, magical hats and so forth – the greater the fraud you will eventually discover him to be!" And what, inquired Mr Horrocks politely, were the few tools that a magician did require? "Why! Nothing really," said Mr Norrell. "Nothing but a silver basin for seeing visions in.

I must not become so absorbed in my scientific work that I forget to fish and end up with nothing to eat.

Ko se spoprijemaš s težavami, ti najbolj pomagajo prav vsakdanje izkušnje, ki ti kažejo zadeve takšne kot so, ne pa, kakršne bi morale biti po kaj vem ?igavem mnenju. Ko za?neš odmetavati balast in izlo?ati vse, kar ti ne pripada, vse, kar prihaja od zunaj, takrat si že na dobri poti.

I've found that it's easier to be pleasant when there's less need to be so.

Actually it is not necessary to renounce the objects of the world, because a human being does not actually own or possess anything. Therefore it is not necessary to renounce anything—but the sense of possessiveness should be renounced.

Gideon brought into my life. The acceptance and the love. The safety. Gideon had given me my freedom back, a life without terror. Giving him vows in return was too simple a repayment for that.

They decided to get married in the house, because it was quick and there was a bed nearby.

Directo al grano, siempre lo digo. La vida es demasiado corta para gastarla en tonterías.

Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person

love knows not of death nor calculus above the simple sum of heart plus heart.

I was thinking that if I'd had the sense to go on living in that old town I might just have met this prison guard in school and married him and had a parcel of kids now. It would be nice, living by the sea with piles of kids and pigs and chickens, wearing what my grandmother called wash dresses, and sitting about in some kitchen with bright linoleum and fat arms, drinking pots of coffee.

Now I know how people can live without books, without college. (...)and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...

De parc? dulcea?a vindec?rii era ceva ce se putea sorbi prin simpla apropiere.

Now I know how people can live without books, without college. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth.

Pure and clean as the cry of a baby, And the universe slide from my side

His big, pleasant, ugly black-clad wife, very broad-beamed, came out. Said she also milked goats; described frisky games of little kid with hand motions. Moon brightening through clouds as we left, clear-cut pine tree jagged against sky. Man happy, own world, out of earth; brother kept three cows on hill beyond railroad station. Left feeling good day; light yellow-green eyes of goats.

From this experience also, a faith arises to carry back to a human world of small lusts and deceitful pettiness. A faith, naive and child like perhaps, born as it is from the infinite simplicity of nature. It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.

A faith, naive and child like perhaps, born as it is from the infinite simplicity of nature. It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.

Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best.

Christianity is 'A condition of complete simplify (Costing not less than everything.)' Four Quartets

Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)