There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz Kafka

There ought to be a law against necessity.
E. Y. Harburg

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
John Irving

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily Dickinson

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Jerry Pournelle

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Henri Poincare

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
John Betjeman

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.
Jan Morris

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
Arthur Erickson

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
Clyde Tombaugh

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Anthony Crosland

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
Pindar

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
Agnetha Faltskog