Quotes about necessity

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.

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 Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.


Would you produce, create and bring value to the world if it weren't for money? Or would you veg out? The necessity of money keeps people relevant and active. The paradox is that people who stay relevant and active make money.

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity.

My education taught me a lot, but nothing I needed to learn.

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All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have.

It is necessary for everyone to develop their internal personality

Take the necessary steps needed to reach your goals

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

Poverty is the origin of invention

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

It is necessary to find ways of solving problem at the expense of available resources

It is necessary to approach the study of the issue from all sides to find as much information as possible on this issue

It is necessary to build a system or a structure which will allow you to form your dream into reality

It is necessary to draw up a plan concerning your goals and your calling

It is necessary to write out in details what you need to do everyday in regards to your purpose and calling

Poverty is the mother of invention

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

While defending your Dream from Competing Opportunities, always be guided by your Valuesrather than perceived necessities

...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

Fewer the necessities, better your life will be.

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.

Reality cannot breathe without imagination.

Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but ingenuity is the bombshell of success

The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

Experience tells me habits are stronger than love, fear, and necessity.

In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.

Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.

Once one’s vision changes to, ‘I don’t have a sofa in my house’, he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the ‘necessity’.

Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and mountain hare. The reason for their swiftness is severely practical: food is so scarce up there that only those who can move swiftly over vast stretches of ground may hope to survive. The speed, the whorls and torrents of movement, are in plain fact the mountain's own necessity. But their grace is not necessity. Or if it is - if the swoop, the parabola, the arrow-flight o

To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many r

Necessity has no law.

Necessity the mother of invention.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Don’t let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it’s hopeless.

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.

To reveal the necessity of the kingdom to others is to live by it

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house. Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets; she is not fond; everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of lo

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.

Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]

Necessity will reign if the domain of kingdom love is realized

I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of inv

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

Kindness is not an option, it is an absolute necessity of life.

A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113)

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?

Money is a necessity, but not the determinant of a successful life. It is there to secure you, but not to save you! It is there to support you, but not to sanctify you!

I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

The difference between poverty and prosperity is the mindset of living out of necessity instead of possibility.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity

There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only into what it itself produces according to its own design; that it must take the lead with principles for its judgments according to constant laws and compel nature to answer its questions, rather than letting nature guide its movements by keeping reason, as it were, in leading-strings; for otherwise accidental observations, made according to no previously designed pl

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

There are two sacred causes in this world,” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.