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    Max Planck
    “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
    ― Max Planck
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    Max Planck
    “As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. . . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
    ― Max Planck, The New Science
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    Isaac Newton
    “If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”
    ― Issac Newton
    tags: discoveries, giants
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    Isaac Newton
    “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: simplicity, truth
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: complexity, philosophy, simplicity
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    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
    tags: simplicity
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    Ernst F. Schumacher
    “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
    ― E.F. Schumacher
    tags: complexity, elegance, genius, inspirational, simplicity, violence
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  • #11
    Lao Tzu
    “Manifest plainness,
    Embrace simplicity,
    Reduce selfishness,
    Have few desires.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: goodness, simplicity, truth
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    William Golding
    “The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: inspirational, simplicity
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “One should use common words to say uncommon things”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: clarity, naivete, simplicity, writing
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “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 weakness.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: simplicity
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    Albert Einstein
    “Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: belongings, simplicity, success, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “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 a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. ”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: simplicity, wisdom
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    Isaac Newton
    “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: nature, philosophy, simplicity, wisdom
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: nature, simplicity
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: greatness, simplicity
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    Thomas Sowell
    “People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
    tags: simplicity, truth
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    Ann Voskamp
    “Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.”
    ― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
    tags: focus, simple, simplicity
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  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #24
    Confucius
    “A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: common, simplicity
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    “What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. ”
    ― William Albert Allard
    tags: photography, simplicity
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    Muhammad Yunus
    “..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.”
    ― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
    tags: advocacy, complication, poverty-alleviation, simplicity, social-change
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    Criss Jami
    “The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: accessibility, complication, genius, intelligence, practicality, practicality-for-intellectuals, roles, simplicity, substance
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    Criss Jami
    “Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: development, humility, information, knowledge, learning, letting-go, pride, simplicity, understanding, wisdom
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  • #30
    Albert Einstein
    “I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: sense, simplicity
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  • #31
    Gail Tsukiyama
    “Everything seems simpler from a distance.”
    ― Gail Tsukiyama, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
    tags: distance, life, people, simple, simplicity
    94 likes



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