“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it. — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We are producing something people can live without. But we need to keep thinking what would make our products a priority purchase… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux… — Steve Shaw Copy Share Image
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to… — Felix Bloch Copy Share Image
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, noisy machine… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Some people refer to a ‘just war’ or a ‘war of necessity’ and others posit that it is simply an illusion to… — Sinachi Ukpabi Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image