Necessity Quotes - page 3

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)
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,miserable train Turns his necessity to glorious gain. View quote
William Wordsworth
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything. View quote
Martha Graham
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. View quote
Victor Hugo
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Make a virtue of necessity. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect... Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. View quote
Joseph Conrad
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. View quote
Franz Kafka
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature. (Sigmund Freud)
Necessity, mother of invention. View quote
William Wycherley
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. View quote
Louis L'Amour
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting. View quote
Bruce Beresford
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. View quote
Ida Tarbell
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades. View quote
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty. (Johann Gottlieb Fichte)
Power is the near neighbour of necessity. View quote
Pythagoras
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. View quote
Robert Walpole
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible. View quote
Rollo May
The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto