NECESSITY QUOTES III

quotations about necessity


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Constant and exclusive devotion to mere physical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal.

FELICITE ROBERT DE LAMENNAIS
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The People's Own Book


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Necessity -- thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest prompter of invention.

WALTER SCOTT

Peveril of the Peak

Tags: Sir Walter Scott


Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Will to Power

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

AGATHA CHRISTIE

An Autobiography

Tags: Agatha Christie


Necessity can make even cowards valiant.

JOSEPH HALL

Contemplations on the Old Testament


Whatever sorrows may be thy doom, bear them with patience, if necessity entail them.

HOMER

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Homer


Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS

De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni


Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Enchiridion

Tags: Francis Quarles


From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.

ISAAC NEWTON

attributed, Our Humanist Heritage

Tags: Isaac Newton


Sheer necessity -- the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The Critic

Tags: Richard Brinsley Sheridan


Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found.

SALIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Necessity imposes law, but does not herself receive it.

PUBLIUS SYRUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Publilius Syrus


Even the gods are unable to contend against necessity.

SIMONIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon


When we are incapable of recognizing the laws of necessity, we believe ourselves to be free.

LUDWIG BÖME

attributed, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists


Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity -- by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Notebooks

Tags: Leonardo da Vinci


Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities ... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

OLIVER CROMWELL

speech to Parliament, September 12, 1654

Tags: Oliver Cromwell


The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

J. G. ZIMMERMAN

Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things


Necessity's sharp pinch!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear

Tags: William Shakespeare


Necessity often has a brow of despair.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

Tags: Edward Counsel


Most of us do not have incomes large enough to provide both the things we need and the things we want. We are forced to choose between our necessities and our luxuries. And, very foolishly, we choose to offer up the luxuries. Thus our existence becomes dull and monotonous. We can hardly be said really to live: our lives are lived for us--cut out and sewed together by the habits and customs of the class to which we belong.

BRUCE FAIRCHILD BARTON

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