Quotes about Necessity

Montesquieu

Judge, Philosopher

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Law - Necessity - Useless

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writer

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Necessity - Original - Practicality - Projection - Recognition

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Fiction - Literature - Luxury - Necessity

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Voltaire

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Giving - Necessity

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Accept - Actions - Change - Complain - Leaving - Madness - Making - Necessity - Negative - Possibility - Power - Speaking - Taking - Unconscious - Victim

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Avicenna

Scientist, Philosopher, Philosopher

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

Essence - Existence - Necessity

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Thomas Aquinas

Friar, Philosopher, Priest, Theologian

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Belief - Knowledge - Necessity

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George Berkeley

Scientist, Philosopher, Philosopher

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

Actions - Creating - Dependence - Existence - Finding - God - Mindset - Necessity - Ownership - Reason

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Writer, Leader, Former President of Turkey

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

Existence - Future - Happiness - Honor - Life - Living - Necessity - Reaching - Willing - Work

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Demosthenes

Statesman, Orator

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Belief - Good - Necessity - People

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Jimmy Carter

Former President of the United States

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Learning - Living - Necessity - Willing

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Dr. Seuss

Author, Cartoonist, Animator

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Laughing - Necessity - Reality

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Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Actions - Necessity - Objectivity

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Doing - Making - Necessity - Nothing - Objection - Overcome

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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Judging - Law - Necessity - Willing

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Thales

Politician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.

Necessity - Strength

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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

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

Man - Necessity

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Aldous Huxley

Writer, Philosopher

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Day - Luxury - Necessity

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Choice - Escape - Man - Necessity - Ownership - Power - World

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Abraham Maslow

Psychologist

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Beauty - Food - Living - Man - Necessity - Rest - Ugly - Weariness

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