Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a… — Albert Schweitzer
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Invention is the mother of necessity. — Thorstein Veblen
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision. — Margaret Barber
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win. — Aeschylus
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on… — D. H. Lawrence
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? — Thomas Huxley
Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. — Erich Fromm
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die. — Euripides
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. — Pliny the Elder
Necessity does everything well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity has no law. — Oliver Cromwell
Necessity has the face of a dog. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. — Miguel de Cervantes
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. — Albert Camus
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. — Unknown Author
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by… — Baruch Spinoza
I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony. — Thomas Jefferson
The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things.… — Wilhelm Reich

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