Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
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Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'"
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
"A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth."
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension."
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"Simplicity is the glory of expression."
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"Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money."
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"Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties."
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"The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort."
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"The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end."
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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
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"Simplicity is not a simple thing."
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"Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste."
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"Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world."
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"The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home."
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"To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches."
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"It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case."
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"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."
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"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
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"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
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"Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance."
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"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."
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"God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction."
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"True refinement seeks simplicity."
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"The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress."
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