24 Quotes Tagged: necessity

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]

I can certainly imagine a man without hands, feet, or head, for it is only experience that teaches us that the head is more necessary than the feet. But I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

Beauty
Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought
Is therapeutic.

If, after several
Applications, you do not find
Relief, consult your family physician

The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.

Well, necessity is the motherfucker of invention, man.

The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a deeper, often unconscious desire for some form of psychological transformation. We don't only want to own things; we want to be changed through our ownership of them. Once we examine consumer behaviour with sufficient attention and generosity, it becomes clear that we aren't indelibly materialistic at all. What makes our age distinctive is our ambition to try to accomplish a variety of complex psychological goals via the acquisition of material goods.

Necessity knows no law.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

Necessity has no law.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist — if any exists — of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally and even brilliantly, and the other capable only of such ghastly balderdash which issues from the minds of Baptist evangelists? Such balderdash takes various forms, but it is at its worst when it is religious. Why should this be so? What is there in religion that completely flabbergasts the wits of those who believe in it? I see no logical necessity for that flabbergasting. Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. In other fields such hypotheses are common, and yet they do no apparent damage to those who incline to them. But in the religious field they quickly rush the believer to the intellectual Bad Lands. He not only becomes anaesthetic to objective fact; he becomes a violent enemy of objective fact. It annoys and irritates him. He sweeps it away as something somehow evil...