#implicit

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#duty #escape #mind #obscurity #questioning

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#great number #implicit #level #number #philosophy

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#practice-god-s-presence #simplicity #beauty

Simplicity is the glory of expression. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#glory #simplicity

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized. ↗

— Asa Gray

#between #could #differences #distinctively #every

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#candor #christianity #conceded #demands #every

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#complexity #puzzle #simplicity

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it. ↗

— Jeremy Spencer

#guitar #i #just #lead #lead guitar

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#fate #life-changing #love #meeting #relationship

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few. ↗

— Francis Crick

#class #extra #few #genetic #having