Comfort and simplicity are two keys that I follow when it comes to fashion.
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.
As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.
A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.
Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom.
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
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