#implicit

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period. ↗

— Amy Dacyczyn

#voluntary-simplicity #money

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#existence #nature #simplicity #nature

They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#marriage #simplicity-in-life #love

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#truth #simplicity

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#cannot #change #changes #compass #constant

All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer. ↗

— James W. Black

#answer #any #could #develop #ever

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#enclose #forms #harmony #life #related

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#earth #man #nature #purity #simplicity

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#contrary #descended #direction #french #french language