Necessity Quotes

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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Daniel Dennett
They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream… — Suzanne Collins
anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on… — Jose Saramago
...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and… — Charlotte Bronte
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions… — Leo Tolstoy
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it — Kurt Vonnegut
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. — May Sarton
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the… — Baruch Spinoza
I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never. — Emiliano Zapata
But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral. — Anne Rice
Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which… — Isaac Newton
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this… — Jacques Derrida
Actually, Katniss isn’t complaining because she has no intention of staying with the “Star Squad,” but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol… — Suzanne Collins
Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood… — Margaret Mitchell
She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in… — Elizabeth Bear
Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction… — Louisa May Alcott
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. — Anthony Powell
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part… — Alan Watts
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one,… — Pablo Picasso
Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew… — Steven Pressfield
The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air… — George Orwell
Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other. — Unknown Author

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