Necessary Quotes

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.