NECESSITY QUOTES III

quotations about necessity

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Will to Power

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS

De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni


Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

Tags: William Faulkner


Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not without a shudder may the hand of man grasp the mysterious urn of destiny.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

The Death of Wallenstein

Tags: Friedrich Schiller


Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia

Tags: Thomas Fuller


When we are incapable of recognizing the laws of necessity, we believe ourselves to be free.

LUDWIG BÖME

attributed, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists


No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by necessity, which by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Conduct of Life

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson


Now sit we close about this taper here,
And call in question our necessities.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Julius Caesar

Tags: William Shakespeare


I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.

EURIPIDES

Hercules Furens

Tags: Euripides


Necessity does the work of courage.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

Tags: George Eliot


From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.

ISAAC NEWTON

attributed, Our Humanist Heritage

Tags: Isaac Newton


We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

QUINTILIAN

Institutio Oratoria


A grand necessity elevates man; a small one degrades him.

L. J. NIVERNAIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Constant and exclusive devotion to mere physical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal.

FELICITE ROBERT DE LAMENNAIS

The People's Own Book


Necessity is a sore penance; and extremity is as hard to bear as death.

CANTACUZENUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary.

ROBERTO BENIGNI

Life Is Beautiful


Soul of the world, divine Necessity,
Servant of God, and master of all things.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

Tags: Philip James Bailey


Necessity often has a brow of despair.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

Tags: Edward Counsel


Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found.

SALIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Even the gods are unable to contend against necessity.

SIMONIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon