Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849, composer)
"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art." (Quoted in If Not God, Then What? by Joshua Fost)
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911, philosopher)
"No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought." (Introduction to the Human Sciences, 1883)
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803, philosopher)
"With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early or immoderately employed, it makes the head waste and the heart empty..." (Briefe, das Studium der Theologie betressend, 1780-1781)
Hans Hofmann (18801966, artist)
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." (Quoted in Keys to Manifesting Your Destiny by Craig Sanders)
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973, philosopher)
"A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professional wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief." (AZQuotes.com)
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835, philosopher)
"The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument." (AZQuotes.com)
Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746, philosopher)
"All out ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate powers of perception internal or external, which we may call senses..." (An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, 1728)
