#necessity

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity. ↗

— Lincoln Kirstein

#corresponded #luck #necessity #she

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#god #love #necessity

I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me. ↗

— M.C. Humphreys

#necessity #life

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#necessity #passion #vocation #obedience

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#love #necessity #love

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. ↗

— Man Ray

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We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#chaos #civilization #desires #necessity #order

Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#necessity #poverty #smell #violence #inspirational

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#causation #cause-and-effect #chance #darwinism #inspirational