Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clear minds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity.” — Angela Lynne Craig Copy Share Image
“I thought that was what religion was. Simplification for the hard of thinking.” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification. — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“The Simplicity Test 1. "Would my grandmother understand this?" 2. "Would I want to explain this at a cocktail party?" 3. "Would… — Greg Born Copy Share Image
“The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear—the simplification that distorts.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the… — Elaine St. James Copy Share Image
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“If we could see our lives from God's perspective, many of us would be forced to admit that our lives are cluttered… — Randy Carlson Copy Share Image
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Holden... One short, faintly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don't you think there's a time and place for everything? Don't you think if someone… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“... a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called ‘tree’.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The need to live by secure, sharply etched classifications is buried deep in the human mind and one of its earliest demands;… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves,… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
