Necessity

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Necessity is stronger far than art. ~ Aeschylus

This page is for quotations on the theme of Necessity, and "the Necessary".

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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. ~ Salvador Dalí

• Necessity is stronger far than art.
  • Aeschylus

• Wherever it is impossible for us to recognize the law of necessity, we believe we are free.
  • Wo wir unfähig sind, die Gesetze der Notwendigkeit zu erkennen, da glauben wir, frei zu sein.
  • Ludwig Börne

• It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
  • Salvador Dalí, in Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 12

• Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
  • Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.
  • Livy

• Not even the gods fight against necessity.
  • Simonides

• Necessity knows no laws.
  • English proverb

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