“It's actually in simplifying life that you get the greatest strength.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 159
Variant: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Source: Walden and Other Writings
“It's actually in simplifying life that you get the greatest strength.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 159
“Contrary to popular opinion, mathematics is about simplifying life, not complicating it.”
Source: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets (2004, 2008), Ch. 7, p. 125
Context: Contrary to popular opinion, mathematics is about simplifying life, not complicating it. A child learns a bag of candies can be shared fairly by counting them out: That is numeracy. She abstracts that notion to dividing a candy bar into equal pieces: arithmetic. Then, she learns how to calculate how much cocoa and sugar she will need to make enough chocolate for fifteen friends: algebra.
“Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 16
Quoted in Strength and Diet https://books.google.it/books?id=uexsAAAAMAAJ by Francis Albert Rollo Russell (London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1905), p. 2.
On the Art of Fiction"; originally published in The Borzoi 1920 (1920)
Willa Cather on Writing (1949)
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
p. 72
Letter to Goethe, (1828).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)