Necessity Quotes

1320 Necessity quotes by 894 unique authors

Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction… — Michel Houellebecq
Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you. — Saint Augustine
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause… — Thomas Aquinas
Everything that happens, happens of necessity. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of… — Carl Jung
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times. — Miguel de Cervantes
Necessity urges desperate measures. — Miguel de Cervantes
If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ...… — Henry David Thoreau
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights… — Honore de Balzac
Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It… — Rose Macaulay
All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student. — Rex Brandt
The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach. — Pete Egoscue
[S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep—good sleep, and enough of… — Edward Everett Hale
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention. — Alison Gopnik
I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be… — Jorge Lorenzo
No one will ever make necessity not happen. — Anne Carson
We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut… — Katharine Hepburn
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. — Michel de Montaigne
Pardon is granted to necessity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that. — Thomas Carlyle
Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only… — Thomas Carlyle

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