necessity Quotes

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be... ...

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

"Necessity is the mother of all invention."

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.