Quotes About Simplicity

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

You're not impressing anyone with the ten-dollar words, Boggs. Fewer adjectives, please. No one's giving you a PhD for this." Since then, Boggs strained to be as succinct as possible so as not to offend his GED-holding boss. As

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;

the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered;

The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered . . . Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.

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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

I loved the feel of the place: the tranquil, bucolic look, the sense of peace that spoke from every doorway, from each plot of well-tended grass, from every newly blooming garden. I loved the solidity and agelessness of it, of the passersby themselves, simple country people with simple country faces. There was a sense of veneration for that which had gone before, a rigid, disciplined effort to preserve things as they were—even, perhaps, a reluctance to acknowledge things as they are.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Progress can today be defined as man`s ability to complicate simplicity.

Who scorns the simple things of life 

Thornton W. Burgess

The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.

Braque and James Joyce, they are the incomprehensibles whom anybody can understand

Yes. I declare—easy as kittens.

Maybe, in the end, that's all that love was—doing the hard thing. Not roses and valentines and walks on the beach, but simply being present, day after ordinary day. The extraordinary romanticism of ordinary life.

It doesn't matter, sister. Too much thinking is bad for health. Now come on, let us sell a few more carrots and brinjals. This is who we are, not poets or philosophers.

Not roses and valentines and walks on the beach, but simply being present, day after ordinary day. The extraordinary romanticism of ordinary life.