"The casual is not Enough. The freshness of transformation isThe freshness of a world. It is our own, It is ourselves, the freshness of ourselves, And that necessity and that presentationAre rubbings of a glass in which we peer."

"Necessity's sharp pinch!"

"The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious."

"All places, that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens: Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity."

"Now sit we close about this taper here, And call in question our necessities."

"In the first place, it is not improper to observe, that the law of cases of necessity is not likely to be well furnished with precise rules; necessity creates the law, it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable and just in such cases, is likewise legal; it is not to be considered as matter of surprise, therefore, if much instituted rule is not to be found on such subjects."

"Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est."

"Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger."

"Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,—miserable train!— Turns his necessity to glorious gain."

"Necessity must speak."

"Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit."

"Berkeley was... the first to treat the subjective starting-point really seriously and to demonstrate irrefutably its absolute necessity. He is the father of idealism."

"It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy."

"Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit."

"Necessity — thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention."

"Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas."

"Spirit of nature! all-sufficing power, Necessity! thou mother of the world!"

"Necessity can turn any weapon to advantage."

"A wise man never refuses anything to necessity."

"Necessity knows no law except to conquer."

"Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers The eternal dews of Helicon have given: And trod the mountain height, Where Science, young and bright, Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven. Yet have I found no power to vie With thine, severe necessity!"

"Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about."

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

"I have often been told of people who have been able to continue one and the same dream over three and more successive nights: facts which clearly show that our innermost being, our common foundation, experiences dreams with profound pleasure and joyful necessity."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"A person may be as radical as you please, and still may make an extremely conservative estimate of the force of necessity exhibited by a given set of conditions. A radical, for example, may think we should get on a great deal better if we had an entirely different system of government, and yet, at this time and under conditions now existing, he may take a strongly conservative view of the necessity for pitching out our system, neck and crop, and replacing it with another. He may think our fiscal system is iniquitous in theory and monstrous in practice, and be ever so sure he could propose a better one, but if on consideration of all the circumstances he finds that it is not necessary to change that system, he is capable of maintaining stoutly that it is necessary not to change it."

"From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God."

"We give to necessity the praise of virtue."

"Necessity, the mother of invention."

"At the beginning of a campaign it is important to consider whether or not to move forward; but when one has taken the offensive it is necessary to maintain it to the last extremity."

"In civil war it is not given to every man to know how to conduct himself. There is something more than military prudence necessary; there is need of sagacity and the knowledge of men."

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil."

"So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed."

"C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessité."

"Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state."

"In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas"

"Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite."

"Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam, Et quantum natura petat."

"Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right."

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

"Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature."

"Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act."

"Necessity is the law of the time and action, and things are lawful by necessity, which otherwise are not; "Quicguid necessitas cogit, defendit"; and the law of the time must regulate the law of the place in such public things."