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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
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Richard Holloway So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul. Ignatius Loyola The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. John Millington Synge The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. Jean Cocteau The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. Douglas Horton The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. James F. Cooper The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. Dorothy L. Sayers The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. Lytton Strachey The great seal of truth is simplicity. Herman Boerhaave The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points. Rudolf Arnheim The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. Edward Teller The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. Charles Eastman The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. Georg C. Lichtenberg The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Thomas More The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. William Falconer The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. George Santayana There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. Alexander Pope There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy |
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