#absence

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#clutter #consequence #describing #essentially #just

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#destroyed #friendship #increased #like #long

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#doubt #due #frequently #inefficient #intemperance

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#defined #desires #freedom #general #may

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#animal #bad #belief #believe #credulous

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage. ↗

— Dan Savage

#children #compulsory #couples #defines #does

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#banishment #deadly #love #love is #self

I dote on his very absence. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#his #i #very