A Quote by Clifton Fadiman

Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.

Clifton Fadiman

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Liquor Means Necessity

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Clifton Fadiman
American - Writer
May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

Thomas Carlyle

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Epicurus

It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).

Elliott Sober

Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the most distant idea of it, consider'd as a quality in bodies. Either we have no idea of necessity, or necessity is nothing but that determination of thought to pass from cause to effects and effects to causes, according to their experienc'd union.

David Hume

We've got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it's not even an option, it's a necessity to have a chiropractor. As much as it is a necessity to have a dentist, if you have a dentist for the family, you should have your chiropractor for the family.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness. That which is necessary, that which must be, means that which will be, whatever supposition we may make in regard to all other things.

John Stuart Mill

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Franz Grillparzer

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Karl Marx

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

Neal A. Maxwell

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.

Thomas Friedman

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Benjamin Franklin

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

Benjamin Tucker

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.