“[M]an when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal.”

— George Trumbull Ladd

In Korea with Marquis Ito (1908), page 292

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American psychologist, educator and philosopher 1842–1921

Tim Winton book Cloudstreet

Part 5, section 19 - p.175
Novels, Cloudstreet (1991)

“Human beings are lazy and it very often happens that one wearies of a new-born emotion for no valid reason unless there is some restraint to stimulate and stabilize it.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship

“Someone within me is struggling to lift a great weight, to cast off the mind and flesh by overcoming habit, laziness, necessity.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Someone within me is struggling to lift a great weight, to cast off the mind and flesh by overcoming habit, laziness, necessity.
I do not know from where he comes or where he goes. I clutch at his onward march in my ephemeral breast, I listen to his panting struggle, I shudder when I touch him.

“Human nature is above all things — lazy.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

Source: Household Papers and Stories (1864), Ch. 6.

“Intellectual laziness is punishable by brain death. It is a natural law.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

Usenet signatures

“I recognize the necessity of animal experiments with my mind but not with my heart.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

"Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat" (August 1972), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 153
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“Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
Variant: Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.

“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.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Part III: Growing Up, §II
Source: An Autobiography (1977)

“Without women there is no party and celebration. This is when all the fun begins. They are partying animals by nature.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Some of the most productive times in the histories of nations have been when they were badly stressed — economically, politically, culturally or socially. It's possible to be stressed to a point that more creativity is stimulated than would otherwise be the case. I think it is true that necessity is the mother of invention.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger (May 21, 2009)

“[M]an when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal.”

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