155 Quotes About Necessity

But without Rousseau's pessimistic approach to history and without his doctrine of the depravity of the present, the nineteenth-century novel of disillusionment is just as inconceivable as the conception of tragedy held by Schiller, Kleist, and Hebbel.

Revolutions are necessary, but they are seldom justified.

Chance and necessity are sole rulers of beings who are incapable of reflection.

Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.

The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do.

The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary.

In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.