#necessity

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#art #dead #father #his #inclination

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#hope #impulse #life #major #necessity

Necessity... the mother of invention. ↗

— Plato

#mother #necessity

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. ↗

— Jan Morris

#adventure #become #commodity #either #into

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#course #history #iron #men #necessary

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ↗

— Richard Owen

#case #his #inevitably #man #mere

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity. ↗

— Pindar

#necessity #whatever

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#action #away #bold #favorite #fear

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#free #harmony #inner #inner life #life

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. ↗