People Quote by Thomas Aquinas

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

— Jose Rizal

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

— Anonymous

[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any…

— Thomas Hobbes

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

— Jose Rizal

Necessity is God's veil.

— Simone Weil

“The necessity of nothingness does not create anything. The real value and meaning of the Being are not in its necessity but in its…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.

— Philip James Bailey

“ontological necessity is not a property that can intelligibly attach to any nature other than God’s.”

— David Bentley Hart

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the…

— David Hume

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the…

— Bertrand Russell

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

— Michel de Montaigne