Muhammad Asad (1900–1992) Austro-Hungarian writer and academic
Source: This Law of Ours and Other Essays (1987), Chapter: Answers of Islam, Answer to Question # 24, p 165
Speech at the Hofburg Palace, in Vienna (27 March 2015) http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/03/geert-wilders-in-vienna-part-2/ <br class="br">2010s
Muhammad Asad (1900–1992) Austro-Hungarian writer and academic
Source: This Law of Ours and Other Essays (1987), Chapter: Answers of Islam, Answer to Question # 24, p 165
“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“I am a simple Buddhist monk — no more, no less.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
As quoted in Nobel Prize Winners (1991) by Lisa F. Dewitt.
Pat Condell (1949) Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality
"Free speech in Europe" (10 November 2010)
2010
“To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“For no fact is so simple we believe it at first sight,
And there is nothing that exists so great or marvellous
That over time mankind does not admire it less and less.”
Sed neque tam facilis res ulla est, quin ea primum
difficilis magis ad credendum constet, itemque
nil adeo magnum neque tam mirabile quicquam,
quod non paulatim minuant mirarier omnes.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book II, lines 1026–1029 (tr. Stallings)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Muhammad Asad book The Principles of State and Government in Islam
Source: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 6: Conclusion, p 100