Quotes About Necessity

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

In order to achieve the goal one should develop full confidence that he would certainly achieve the goal. He should not think of any other alternatives. The mind has enormous power to overcome any hurdle, however big it may be, if only there is a felt-necessity. Create such a necessity in order to achieve the goal.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Teach your children what life is about, help them to understand what values are and what is necessary to make it in life....

that sense of relief which one has in reading Kant when, after the most rigorous demonstration of determinism, one finds that above the world of necessity there is the world of freedom.

La filosofia parla spesso di atti liberi e di atti necessari. Forse non ve n'è nessuno più completamente subìto da noi di quello che, in virtù di una forza ascensionale compressa durante l'azione, fa, quando il nostro pensiero è in riposo, risalire così un ricordo livellato agli altri dalla forza oppressiva della distrazione, e slanciarsi, perché a nostra insaputa esso conteneva più degli altri un fascino di cui ci accorgiamo soltanto ventiquattro ore dopo.

For every death is for others a simplification of life, it spares them the necessity of showing gratitude, the obligation of paying calls.

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Er zijn noodzakelijke en minder noodzakelijke zonden.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.

Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.