Quotes About Simplicity

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

I like the philosophy of the sandwich, as it were. It typifies my attitude to life, really. It's all there, it's fun, it looks good, and you don't have to wash up afterwards.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.