(430 quotes found)
“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
Albert Einstein
“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”
Oscar Wilde
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
“Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
Maya Angelou
“Necessity never made a good bargain”
Benjamin Franklin
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind.”
Ayn Rand
“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.”
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