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My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.
— Dieter Rams
Only the superfluous is dirty.
— Boris Pasternak
Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.
— Joseph Hertz
Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's.
— William Shakespeare
The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.
— Donald A. Norman
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
— Henry David Thoreau
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
— Adolf Loos
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
— Jonathan Galassi
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.
— Emil Cioran
Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state devised!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
— Piero Ferrucci
The superfluous is the most necessary.
— Voltaire
The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.
— Peter Drucker
After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
— Yasmina Reza
Wherever poesie can be felt, all poetic touches are superfluous.
— Robert Walser
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
— Voltaire
The superfluous is very necessary.
— Voltaire
Learn everything. Later you will see that nothing is superfluous.
— Hugh Of Saint-Victor
Eliminate the superfluous that tries to enter your thoughts.
— Steven Redhead
Idle and superfluous all day long, all at once they had become visible, needed, and
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
It is for the superfluous we sweat.
— Seneca The Younger
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
— Will Self
Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!
— Joseph Prince
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
— Marcus Aurelius
Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!
— Nelson Rodrigues
From the moment when they were in love, it was superfluous to obey them, since they would only be more in love later on.
— Marcel Proust
Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.
— Theo Van Doesburg
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
— Alexander Pushkin
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
— Isaac Newton
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
— Karl Marx
The unnecessary and superfluous volume of pure beauty around here is not the be believed.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous
— Albert Einstein
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.
— Gustave Courbet
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
— Aaidh Ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
— Richard Baxter
Logic is overrated and superfluous when it comes to love.
— Christina Dodd
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
— David Hilbert
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
— Seneca The Elder
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
— Joseph Joubert
It would be superfluous todrive us mad, my dear Watson — Arthur Conan Doyle
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
— John Henry Newman
Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
— Cyril Smith
How superfluous other people can seem when you are convinced you already have the only ones you need.
— Cristina Moracho
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
— George Bernard Shaw
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
— Edward Gibbon
Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
— William Shakespeare
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
— Celia Green
I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
— Marcus Aurelius
Having seen you naked, I should demand that the only thing you wear in my presence from now on are these earrings. Anything else is superfluous.
— Sylvain Reynard
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise ... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
— Jacques Ellul
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
— Oliver Herford
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason
— Thomas Aquinas
Eliminate the superfluous.
— Giorgio Armani
Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous.
— Marty Rubin
Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
— George Gurdjieff
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
— Joseph Addison
If two people agree on everything, one of them is superfluous.
— Martha N. Beck
My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.
— Vidal Sassoon
Only the superfluous is sordid
— Boris Pasternak
The aim of all government is to make all government superfluous.
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. — Samuel Johnson
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.
— Adam Osborne
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
— Johannes Brahms
The libido also made an early exit, as it does in most major illnesses - it is the superfluous need of a body in beleaguered emergency.
— William Styron
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
— Lope De Vega
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
— Pliny The Younger
What I have to say is superfluous for anyone who often feels the pangs of hunger
— Clarice Lispector
Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.
— Hugh Of Saint-Victor
Jim's vague understanding was that she had so much money that a strict job description was superfluous.
— Emma Straub
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.
— Richard Dawkins
