The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.
crimes / necessity / superfluity / tyrant
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
beauty / civilization / cultural / necessity / use
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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.
As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logical impossibility.
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.