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Necessity Quotes by Simone Weil
- When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point…
- No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.
- He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as…
- Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity… — Albert Einstein
- In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan
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- Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. — Oscar Wilde
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and… — Roger Williams
- Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone… — Eric Bana