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Less is truly more.
Simplicity is the art of stripping away the unnecessary, focusing on the essential elements that truly matter and bring value. It's a deliberate choice to declutter our lives, both physically and mentally, to create space for what fosters genuine joy, connection, and purpose, enriching our lives by reducing stress, fostering mindful awareness, and promoting authentic experiences.
# Simplicity & Themes
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Context: • Colin Chapman, Lotus philosophy
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“Simplify, then add lightness”
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Context: • Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto (1855) Also utilized by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as precept for minimalist architecture
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“Less is more.”
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Context: • Charles Wagner, Simple Life (1895), Chapter II.
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“Simplicity is a state of mind.”
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Context: • Joan Miró, Joan Miró Foundation
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“To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.”
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Context: • Kelly Johnson, KISS principle reported in Ben R. Rich, Clarence Leonard (Kelly) Johnson 1910—1990: A Biographical Memoir (1995), National Academy of Sciences.
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“Keep it simple, stupid.”
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# Simplicity & Virtues
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Context: • Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012) Prologue, p. 11.
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“[S]implicity is not so simple to attain.”
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Context: • Edsger W. Dijkstra, How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975).
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“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”
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Context: • Ward Cunningham, "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work" (19 January 2004).
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“Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.”
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Context: • Coco Chanel, interview in Harper's Bazaar (1923).
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“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
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Context: • Muhammad, Abu Dawud
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“Simplicity is a part of faith.”
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Context: • Colin Chapman, Lotus philosophy
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“Simplify, then add lightness”
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Context: • Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto (1855) Also utilized by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as precept for minimalist architecture
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“Less is more.”
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Context: • Charles Wagner, Simple Life (1895), Chapter II.
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“Simplicity is a state of mind.”
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Context: • Joan Miró, Joan Miró Foundation
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“To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.”
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Context: • Kelly Johnson, KISS principle reported in Ben R. Rich, Clarence Leonard (Kelly) Johnson 1910—1990: A Biographical Memoir (1995), National Academy of Sciences.
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“Keep it simple, stupid.”
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Context: • Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012) Prologue, p. 11.
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“[S]implicity is not so simple to attain.”
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Context: • Edsger W. Dijkstra, How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975).
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“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”
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Context: • Ward Cunningham, "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work" (19 January 2004).
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“Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.”
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Context: • Coco Chanel, interview in Harper's Bazaar (1923).
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“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
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Context: • Muhammad, Abu Dawud
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“Simplicity is a part of faith.”
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Context: • Armen Agop, quoted by Eltorie, Aida, (2009) Undercurrent, Contemporary Egyptian Art. Art Sawa. Dubai. pg. 32
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“Simplicity is very complicated.”
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Context: • Kwamankra to Mansa, in Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation by J. E. Casely Hayford. C.M. Phillips. 1911. p. 59.
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“Have pity on my simplicity, for I am but a mortal.”
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Context: • Plurality ought never be posited without necessity.
• William of Occam, Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi (ed. Lugd., 1495), i, dist. 27, qu. 2, K.
• Commonly paraphrased as Occam's razor:
• Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
• Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
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• William of Occam, Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi (ed. Lugd., 1495), i, dist. 27, qu. 2, K.
• Commonly paraphrased as Occam's razor:
• Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
• Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
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“Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.”
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Context: • Attributed to Albert Einstein. Possibly paraphrased from remarks in "On the Method of Theoretical Physics", Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford (10 June 1933), Philosophy of Science, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April 1934), pp. 163-169, p. 165.
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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
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Context: • Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907).
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“Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”
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Context: • J. C. and A. W. Hare, Guesses at Truth; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 710.
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“The greatest truths are the simplest: and so are the greatest men.”
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Context: • Blaise Pascal in Provincial Letters: Letter XVI; similar statements have been attributed to Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Cicero, and others besides.
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“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
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Context: • Charles Wagner, Simple Life (1895), Chapter III.
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“Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.”
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Context: • Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Natural Fools, Maxim I.
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“Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool.”
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Context: • Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law.
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“Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.”
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