Quotes About Minimalism

Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate

I don't collect anything.

Plain food is quite good enough for me.

The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4

But the planes have a new elegant shape. Not one unnecessary ornament." "Yes," said Mabo softly and watched the planes fly off through the sky with a childlike innocence. "A form with no unneeded ornaments is nice.

Yo soy tan pobre como la naturaleza, y tan simple como el firmamento.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hoffman

Nothing more, nothing less...

I remember taking my entire wardrobe with me on that trip. It consisted of one shirt on a wire hanger, and one pair of underpants in a carrier bag.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

If your mind isn't cluttered by unnecessary things, this could be the best day of your life." —

Por vezes é suficiente a bruma ou a montanha. Por vezes uma árvore que se inclina sob as rajadas do vento é suficiente. Por vezes a noite é suficiente, e não o sonho que torna presente à alma aquilo que lhe falta ou que perdeu.

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn't that worth something? He existed. Not many people in the world knew how to, even if they had the money. It really didn't take money, masses of money, it took a certain security.

Unless the line of a life, once it has reached its term, purges itself of all its useless and decorative elements. In which case, all that remains is the essential: the blanks, the silences and the pauses.

a black granite cube containing only the character mu

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

You must get used to doing with as little as you can. By wanting less, you are content with less, and the less you need, the better off you are.

Less is more, more or less.

We were doing the best we could with what we had left, and more and more it was like Diogenes tossing away the tin cup because he could drink with his hands. It turns out there is no end to learning what you can do without.

Cut everything superfluous,' Pound had said. 'Go in fear of abstractions. Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

apart from the grey smudge of a tanker or freighter on the horizon, the sea was empty.