Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

— William of Ockham

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

— William of Ockham

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

— William of Occam

The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things…

— Martin Heidegger

Entities have died, but what they seek is life again. They miss it. They want to experience food again, basic things. They are low…

— Frederick Lenz

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

— Martin Heidegger

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate…

— Jed S. Rakoff

“Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)”

— William of Ockham

“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”

— William of Ockham

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

— William of Ockham

I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.

— Joel Kinnaman

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

— Ernest Hemingway

“After a few years of watching the human species make things unnecessarily difficult for itself I have little hope that it will do anything…

— Octavia E. Butler

“We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily.”

— Dean Koontz

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving…

— Jesse Williams