Quotes About Necessity

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with their own race or tradition and who hope, by means of renunciation, to assure for themselves a future world where, to use a Nietzschean expression, the inversion of all values will occur.

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

nothing in the house. I'll need to shower

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

Le royaume de la liberté commence seulement là où l'on cesse de travailler par nécessité.

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car designers still haven't sorted this problem. They still install cigarette lighters, even though most smokers carry a lighter, and glove compartments – glove compartments! Why is there an area reserved for gloves? It just helps impulsive murderers, doesn't it? Electric windows are all very nice but hardly necessary. And yet no one has thought about emptying the bladder.

Needs must, and so on.

She was one of those girls who wasn't entirely convinced that food was necessary for survival - anything more robust than a strawberry yoghurt made her anxious.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

I never killed a man who didn't need it.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.