The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.
Eric ChaissonTags: determinism nature necessity chance randomness
Necessity has no law.
Oliver CromwellTags: necessity
Reality cannot breathe without imagination.
Lionel SuggsTags: imagination existence necessity
Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!
Oscar WildeImagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us.
Steven RedheadTags: imagination necessity resolve issues creative solutions yields
The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.
Tags: despair necessity misery need
Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?
Ronald J. SiderTags: style compassion rich wealth christianity necessity fashion christian poverty hunger obedience neighbors luxury
...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.
Evan D.G. FraserTags: food people belief necessity consumption
We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.
Alain de BottonTags: civilization necessity authenticity desires chaos repression order
I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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