I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
quote by Agatha Christie
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Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
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In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Plato in The Republic
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Necessity, the mother of invention.
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
quote by Mikhail Gorbachev (8 June 1990)
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'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
The problematic child
Necessity is the mother of invention,
People say. Then we can say like that:
Wealth is the mother of comforts,
And poverty, of meanness.
Wealth is the mother of indolence too.
So is poverty, of viciousness.
Wealth and poverty near by
Deliver discontent,
Which is a problematic child.
04.01.2009
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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With Me
there is no more
transient silence the one without a
home to call its own
for now silence assumes a
permanent position
as the doorman to my heart
no word is allowed to come in
unless necessary
remember what necessity is?
it is your mother
of invention.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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