Necessity Quotes

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing… — Blaise Pascal
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. — Pablo Picasso
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official… — James K. Polk
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. — Francis Quarles
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical… — Tariq Ramadan
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. — Ayn Rand
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one… — Ayn Rand
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species… — Man Ray
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. — Bertrand Russell
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists,… — Stacy Schiff
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use… — Amy Sedaris
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that. — Will Self
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine… — Baruch Spinoza
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. — Madame de Stael
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're… — Twyla Tharp
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. — Leon Trotsky
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as… — Harry S. Truman

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