155 Quotes About Necessity

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

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.

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.

We need each other, this is a necessity of life.

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?

...neither of them has yet learned to accept hard necessity without making it worse by regret. That's a vital lesson, Miri. Regret is not productive. Nor is guilt, nor grief.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

Well, necessity is the motherfucker of invention, man.

Necessity starves on the stoop of invention.