We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful! To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.
Freedom is the truth of necessity.[Die Freiheit die Wahrheit der Nothwendigkeit ist.]
The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what’s known and what’s secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested in what’s not known. He wants to know what can evolve, what opportunities might develop.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Necessity is the mother of “taking chances.”
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.[La neciessità è maestra e tutrice della natura. La neciessità è tema e inventrice della natura e freno e regola eterna.]
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.[Die Notwendigkeit ist kein Tatbestand, sondern eine Interpretation.]
Necessity has the face of a dog.[La necesidad tiene cara de perro.]
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
Iron necessity is a thing which has been found, in the course of history, to be neither iron nor necessary.[Die eherne Nothwendigkeit ist ein Ding, von dem die Menschen im Verlauf der Geschichte einsehen, dass es weder ehern noch nothwendig ist.]
Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by But when it leaves us for a time ‘Tis a necessity.
