#implicit

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. ↗

— Robert Bork

#explicitly #guaranteed #implicitly #procreate #right

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#concussion #simplicity #beauty

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

#elegance #genius #inspirational #simplicity #violence

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#arts #aspect #closer #easy #easy way

Everything seems simpler from a distance. ↗

— Gail Tsukiyama

#life #people #simple #simplicity #life

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#simple-living #simplicity #life

My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That's what I've been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care. ↗

— Sue Bender

#love

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies. ↗

— Derek Landy

#problems #simplicity #solutions #simplicity

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#simplicity #art