The way towards simplicity is through outrage.
William GoldingTag: simplicity outrage sophy
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
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We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.
Bryant McGillTag: love acceptance nature nationalism simplicity intelligent care protect knowledgeable
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Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.
Bryant McGillTag: freedom individualism simplicity importance
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Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood.
Brandon AndressTag: simile understanding jesus simplicity eyes jesus-christ understand message ears see complex hear messages understood simple-people
The most creative approach is often the simple approach.
Phil CookeTag: creativity simplicity
Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."
("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.")
[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]
Tag: truth simplicity complications detours
A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David ThoreauTag: simplicity simple-life simple-living
In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. (p 207)
Alain de BottonTag: words writing literature complexity simplicity engineering
For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209)
Alain de BottonTag: complexity elegance simplicity intuition architecture design complicated construction
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