#necessity

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#call #eternal #evil #evolution #moment

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ↗

— Bern Williams

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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#bourgeois #capital #class #domination #grave

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#desire #entertainment #everything #food #health

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#both #convenient #dispense #doubt #equally

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. ↗

— James K. Polk

#action #almost #although #chief #chosen

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#across #away #benefits #both #come

Not even Ares battles against necessity. ↗

— Sophocles

#battles #even #necessity

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it. ↗

— Thales

#more #must #necessity #nothing #over

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#brute #experience #instinct #instructed #minds