A quotation from Montaigne

It is dangerous to attack a man whom you have deprived of every means of escape except by fighting, for necessity is a violent schoolmistress.
 
[Il fait dangereux assaillir un homme, à qui vous avez osté tout autre moyen d’eschapper que par les armes : car c’est une violente maistresse d’escole que la necessité.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1572), “Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment [De l’incertitude de nostre jugement],” Essays, Book 1, ch. 47 (1.47) (1595) [tr. Cohen (1958)]

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A quotation from Robert Bolt

YEVGRAF: I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the Party is beneath the dignity of any man. And the Party was right: one man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic; five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city.

Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
Doctor Zhivago, film (1965)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bolt-robert/77711/

The ongoing attempt to understand the function of #dance and #culture. Is it, as in #Ukraine, more about #necessity than entertainment? On tanz.dance, Polina Bulat provides the answer: https://tanz.dance/in-war/?lang=en Maciel Kuzminski's ‘Élán’, in Leiden, Theater Ins Blau, 5 June

Very large cached US Kindle giveaway on bksy: 8 copies each of @Bluejo's Thessaly trilogy -- The Just City, Necessity, and The Philosopher Kings -- over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lndsdvbhck22

Your #data is your digital #identity - protect it like your life depends on it... because in some cases, your life may literally depend on it.

With breaches - and police searches of social media - happening daily, it’s not paranoia; it’s #precaution

Encrypt, use fake data, stay anonymous as much as possible, and question who you share with. #Privacy isn’t just a right; it’s a #necessity

A quotation from Ellis Peters

You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter, who also wrote under the names John Redfern, Jolyon Carr, Peter Benedict]
Brother Cadfael’s Penance, ch. 16 (1994)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/peters-ellis/75756/

Is the Overnight #Train A #Luxury or a #Necessity?

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/19/is-the-overnight-train-a-luxury-or-a-necessity

For me - nowadays especially - #VPN is a #necessity. Any #service and/ or #website blocking such a necessity, tells me everything I need to know about it. Up yours.

#Necessity is the mother of #invention. #China #innovates and shakes up #American #Capitalism. #DeepSeek does it cheaply (and might potentially be moving fast towards #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence (#AGI). While undermining #AmericanCapitalism is not necessarily a bad thing, is this rocket-speed #evolution of #ArtificialIintelligence (#AI) an #existential #threat to #humanity? Keen to hear your views.

- https://youtu.be/wMxXqDNu9_w
- https://youtu.be/mSkp57j9vdU
- https://youtu.be/ul6y2IoRNVI

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Francis of Assisi

#Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisofAssisi #Necessity #Possibility

#Photography #Panorama #MississippiRiver #PikesPeak #Iowa

#JohnLeslie - The #Mystery of #Existence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcq_2_bZhqs

#Philosophy #Religion #Spiritual #Goodness #Meaning #Purpose #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Metaphysics #Universe #Origins #Value #Math #Maths #Mathematics #God Reality #Mind #Consciousness #Idealism #Physics #Logic #DavidLewis #Lewis #Possibility #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Nothing #Nothingness #Hawking #StephenHawking #Necessity #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

« Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but having the right to do what we ought. »

― John Paul II

· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/726313918641897472/freedom-consists-not-in-doing-what-we-like-but

« … Well, in art as in everything else, one can build only upon a resisting foundation: whatever constantly gives way to pressure, constantly renders movement impossible. »

― Igor Stravinsky

· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/726216087724851200/so-here-we-are-whether-we-like-it-or-not-in-the

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#PRIVACY is no longer a benefit, but a #NECESSITY.

#PIVX #BYOB #Bitcoin
#PIVX #BYOB #Bitcoin

A quotation from Horace:

«
Necessity’s impartial law
For every rank is still the same,
One lot for high and low to draw:
The urn hath room for every name.
 
[Aequa lege Necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos;
Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/horace/71068/

#ColinMcGinn - Can #Metaphysics Discover #Surprises?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIYa3wUrhQ

#Philosophy #Reality #Matter #Energy #Existence #Categories #Materialism #Abstraction #Platonism #Mathematics #Numbers #Space Time #SpaceTime #Mentality #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Language #Causality #Contingency #Event #Events #Positivism #LogicalPositivism #Verification #Necessity #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn