Quotes About Necessity

The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.

It usually sits on the night table, so that I can easily look up an unknown word while I'm reading. This book allows me to read other books, to open the door of a new language. It accompanies me, even now, when I go on vacation, on trips. It has become a necessity. If, when I leave, I forget to take it with me, I feel slightly uneasy, as if I'd forgotten my toothbrush or a change of socks.

On so many levels [S.E. Cupp]'s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.

First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

The central goals of Piaget's theory were to describe and explain the fecundity and rigor of thought (Piaget, 1936/1952, pp. 417–419; see Chapman, 1988, p. 144). Fecundity refers to the continuous construction of novel forms of thought in the course of development. Rigor refers to the reversibility (i.e., systemic coordination) and deductive necessity of thought (see Chapter 3, this volume).

Is it possible that a contingent genesis can lead to necessary knowledge?

That's why they say: work puts man in his grave but it's work that feeds and protects him until the grave. The important thing is that it protects him.

La paz significa en la mayoría de los casos una vida serena, la disponibilidad de lo necesario, la dignidad de no tener que implorar piedad. La paz puede significar también libertad, si es administrada sabiamente.

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity. Freedom is necessity overcome. Progress is, in essence, the progress of human freedom. Yes, and after all, life itself is freedom. The evolution of life is the evolution of freedom.

La nécessité nous délivre de l'embarras du choix. Necessity delivers us from the difficulty of choice.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.' That was easy for Sherkaner Underhill to say. He didn't have to engineer the science into reality.

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Danger is the father of preparation.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.