Enjoyed Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

— Alistair Begg

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

— Voltaire

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

— Gottfried Leibniz

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular…

— William Ames

Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

— Mark Halperin

What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of…

— Aleister Crowley

There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after…

— Eric Shipton

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

— Henry David Thoreau

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of…

— Eric Hoffer

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would…

— Arthur Schopenhauer