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"You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in."
"What a lot of things there are a man can do without."
"Live simply that others might simply live."
"He who hoards much loses much."
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
"Simplicity, very rare in our age."
"The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored."
"Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly."
"I like simplicity; I don't need luxury."
"There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity."
"Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise."
"For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
"Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought."
"You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love."
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."
"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
"What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose."
"Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful."
"Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop."
"A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability."
