Simplicity Quote by Dorothee Soelle

Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean…

— Rolf Potts

“Verbal virtuosities or the gratuitous expense of time or money that is presupposed by material or symbolic appropriation of works of art, or even,…

— Pierre Bourdieu

“SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of this world.…

— Siang-Yang Tan

“In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial, a temporary…

— Cory Bernardi

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone…

— Seneca

The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented by events…

— Zicheng Hong

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process…

— Jeremy Seabrook

“Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.”

— Charles Portis

“The basis of spiritual renewal is not the guilt feelings that frequently arise in sensitized individuals in rich industrial societies. Instead, it is a…

— Dorothee Soelle

“From the late eighteenth century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from being a wanderer that the instinct of…

— Raymond Williams

Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity:…

— Lewis Mumford