Quotes About Necessity

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

It's not something I wanted to do, go overseas, but it was something that had to be done.

Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.

These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.

Charity should be given to those who need it not those who want it.

Todo eso que está inútilmente añadido a la pura necesidad, es arte.

Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.

People who don't like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it's theoretically necessary

The grief and anxiety did not die away, but of necessity they receded.

1 + 1 = 2 is simply an induction from experience. It is in no way logically or arithmetically 'necessary'. It is induced knowledge, on a par with 'All swans are white'.

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

one must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.

It is not that we cannot believe," he replied. "It is that we do not want anything enough. Faith rises from necessity. We have no necessity.

And will you understand me when I say I would fight to keep you free from such beliefs because for you they would be false, and at the same time I would fight to keep my mother in those same beliefs because for her they are true and necessary? She would be lost without them, for by them she has lived and by them she must die. But you and l—we must have our own beliefs to live and die in

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

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

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

Art is far feebler than necessity.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter