One should use common words to say uncommon things
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: writing simplicity clarity naivete
I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;—not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less,—not suppose a case, but take the case that is
Henry David ThoreauTags: prayer simplicity timelessness
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
Henry David ThoreauTags: simplicity materialism dependence
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac NewtonTags: truth simplicity
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
George EliotTags: simplicity assumptions
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 CalvinoTags: existence nature simplicity being
My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That's what I've been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care.
Sue BenderTags: simplicity
Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the "hands of God"; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: morality people stupidity atheism nihilism simplicity zeitgeist common
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom knowledge learning humility understanding simplicity information pride development letting-go
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
Criss JamiTags: different genius simplicity independent-thought privacy independent envy self-sufficiency superiority creative inferiority misunderstanding distinction complex odd difficulties genius-distinction inferiority-complex intimidating
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