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3:16pm Necessity by Insight from A Genesis
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)

More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/

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Wilde, Oscar - Essay (1891-02), "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns) | WIST Quotations

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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Hermetic Library Jan 30

Unicursal ALL WILL NECESSITY Propaganda from the Office of the Ministry of Information at Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/information/all-will-necessity/index

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Hermetic Library Jan 30

Unicursal ALL WILL NECESSITY Propaganda from the Office of the Ministry of Information at Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/information/all-will-necessity/index

#propaganda #thelema #AleisterCrowley #all #will #necessity #swerve #ultimately #UltimatelyImpossible #impossible #seek #suffer

WIST Quotations Jan 20

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The price for absolute freedom from necessity is, in a sense, life itself, or rather the substitution of vicarious life for real life. […] The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the “easy life of the gods” would be a lifeless life.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Human Condition, Part 3 “Labor,” ch. 16 (1958)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10515/

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Arendt, Hannah - The Human Condition, Part 3 "Labor," ch. 16 (1958) | WIST Quotations

The price for absolute freedom from necessity is, in a sense, life itself, or rather the substitution of vicarious life for real life. [...] The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in…

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Wisdom in Space Jan 3

Beings ought not to be multiplied except out of necessity. (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.)
-- William of Occam (14th Century CE)

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MidgePhoto Nov 14

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/115547499309561097

#necessity has #inventions for daughters.
To reduce the use of #oil as fuel in the #UK reduce the amount of oil entering the country.
Most effectively done by reducing the rate it enters, close a berth or a port, turn down the pumps and taps on pipelines, accept deliveries only on weekdays, etc.
(And increase the amounts we store, and the places we store it in, and the actual volume between import and end-user, for security).

Then we shall work with less of it and feel clever.

A.J. West Nov 5

Necessity is the tightening of infinity into a single line.

Freedom folding into focus, pretending there is no other way.
It births direction, not truth.

When seen, it loosens — and what seemed required reveals itself as choice already made.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 19

A quotation from William Pitt

It is true, the bill is said to be founded on necessity; but what is this? Is it not necessity, which has always been the plea of every illegal exertion of power, or exercise of oppression? Is not necessity the pretence of every usurpation? Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt (1759-1806) British Prime Minister (1804-06) [William Pitt the Younger]
Speech (1793-11-18), House of Commons, London

More info about this quote: wist.info/pitt-william/3164/

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