#simplicity

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#greatness #simplicity #truth #where

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness

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

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity. ↗

— Will Wright

#been #come #complexity #fascinated #i

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. ↗

— Hank Stram

#plus #simplicity #variety

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#direct #familiar #feelings #function #i

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

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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. ↗

— George Eliot

#simplicity #life

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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