984 Quotes About Simplicity

Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worries, there are bound to be machine hearts. With a machine heart in your breast, you've spoiled what was pure and simple; and without the pure and simple, the life of the spirit knows no rest.

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15)

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.

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]

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.