#necessity

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. ↗

— Jan Morris

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ↗

— Richard Owen

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity. ↗

— Pindar

#necessity #whatever

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

— Ayn Rand

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ↗

— Odilon Redon

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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Necessity does the work of courage. ↗

— Nicholas M. Butler

#does #necessity #work

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. ↗

— John Irving

#constantly #necessity #no reason #reason #revise

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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