#necessity

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#been #bench #bringing #dock #down

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#determinism #nature #necessity #randomness #age

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread? ↗

— Ron Sider

#christianity #compassion #fashion #hunger #luxury

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#defence #destruction #doubtless #effected #function

Reality cannot breathe without imagination. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #necessity #imagination

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bagels #butter #butter-knife #creation #deadly

Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all. ↗

— Lev Shestov

#philosophy #wisdom #men

A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#kindness #necessity #right-speech #speech #yoga

Necessity is the mother of taking chances. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mother #necessity #taking #taking chances

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. ↗

— Democritus

#everything #existing #fruit #necessity #universe