I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and who are not as informed as journalists or professional thinkers - may get a bit, you know, impatient with the necessity of sustained thinking, sustained argumentation, sustained dialogue.
As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.
I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.
Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.
I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.
I now see the necessity of a beginning.
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.
So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.