Necessary Existence Quotes

Truth is a necessary phantom.

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Let there be two possible things, A and B, one of which is such that it is necessary that it exists, and let us assume that there is more perfection in A than in B. Then, at least, we can explain why A should exist rather than B and can foresee which of them will exist; indeed, this can be demonstrated, that is, rendered certain from the nature of the thing.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.

Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced - and which therefore is the cause of those other things that are made, something... whose existence must needs be necessary... Wherefore all the question now is, what is this... self-existent thing, which is the cause of all other things that are made.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!