We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Necessity’s sharp pinch!
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.]
To do a great right, do a little wrong.
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.
The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.
Our stomachs will make what’s homely savoury.
Now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities.
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.]
