A Quote by Epicurus

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

Epicurus

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Continuing Evil Live Necessity Subject

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Epicurus
Greek - Philosopher
341 BC - 270 BC

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

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Hannah Arendt

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

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

Seneca the Younger

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

It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

James Madison

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

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Karl Marx

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

Neal A. Maxwell

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.