Source: Wizard's First Rule
“I am who I am.
A coincidence no less unthinkable
than any other.”
“I am not a big banyan tree; I am a less green bush, the more you cut, the more I grow”
Quoted in Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, "Poetic identity," http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/10/19/stories/2008101950080200.htmThe Hindu, India, 19 October 2008
“I am a simple Buddhist monk — no more, no less.”
As quoted in Nobel Prize Winners (1991) by Lisa F. Dewitt.
“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.”
Pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins homme.
Act III, sc. iii
Tartuffe (1664)
"Andrea del Sarto", line 70
"Less is more" is often misattributed to architects Buckminster Fuller or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It is something of a motto for minimalist philosophy. It was used in 1774 by Christoph Martin Wieland.
Men and Women (1855)
Context: I do what many dream of, all their lives,
— Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive — you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat —
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) — so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
There burns a truer light of God in them,
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain,
Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt
This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine.
