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Simplicity Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
- As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get…
- The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
- To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all…
- The rule is to carry as little as possible.
- Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.
- My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
- Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he…
- Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
- A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
- I love a life whose plot is simple.
- The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- 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…
- Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count…
- To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live…
- I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in…
- Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
- Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
- I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion…
More Simplicity Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I always go for simplicity. — David Bailey
- Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. — Philip James Bailey
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
- We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
- Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee