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He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have read more
My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and
happy.
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and
happy.
Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
