As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

“Be the best, not necessarily the original.”

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don’t know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

No,” said the priest, “you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.” “Depressing view,” said K. “The lie made into the rule of the world.

Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

Professor Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, “Arise, Sir: it is near seven o’clock and you have great work to do today

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn’t everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

You can have the big arm, and that’s good, and it helps out in the games, but it doesn’t help you necessarily win games.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

We had taken his silence as a sort of encouragement; necessarily, then, this talk of his was a disappointment to us, for it showed we had made no impression upon him… we knew then how the missionary must feel when he has been cherishing a glad hope and has seen it blighted.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.