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• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling, Simplicity, Generality, Mathematician

• To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

  Bruce Lee

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Expression, Easy, Lies And Lying, Simplicity, Artist

• Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

  Philip James Bailey

  Topics in Art, Nature

  Tags in First Step, Simplicity, Artist

• Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questions, Simplicity, Creativity

• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplicity, Ideas

• 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.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Unnecessary, Possessions, Simplicity, Freedom

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Letters, Expression, Glory, Light, Sunshine, Simplicity

• If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understanding, Simplicity

• But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I’ve been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Meditation, Understanding, Simplicity

• Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Now, Moderation, Time, Simplicity

• I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.

  George Bird Evans

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dogs, Simplicity

• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplicity

• Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Simplicity

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

  Hans Hofmann

  Topics in Confusion

  Tags in Simplicity

• A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labor of other [people], living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labor of my fellow [people]. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interdependence, Simplicity

• The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.

  Brenda Peterson

  Topics in Nature, Religion

  Tags in Now, Interdependence, Myth, Simplicity

• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplicity

• If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

  Alan Wilson Watts

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  Tags in Simplicity

• At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a “problem” of it.

  Alan Wilson Watts

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  Tags in Simplicity

• The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

  Rebecca West

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  Tags in Simplicity