“Necessity makes a joke of civilization.”
In Joy Still Felt (1980), p. 124
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Part III, ch. XVI
The Mysterious Island (1874)
“They're making a joke of our universe”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
An American Prayer (1978)
“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
“Making a virtue of necessity.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
III, 86
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Jacob M. Appel (1973) American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic
Sphinx Society lecture, Brown University, April 3, 2003 (as reported in the Brown Daily Herald
Sigmund Freud book Civilization and Its Discontents
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2, as translated by James Strachey, p.62
“3313. Make a Virtue of Necessity.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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