As quoted in Love and Live Or Kill and Die: Realities of the Destruction of Human Life (2009) by James H. Wilson, p. 72
Variants:
Strongest is Necessity because it governs all things.
As quoted in Symbolism of the Sphere: A Contribution to the History of Earlier Greek Philosophy (1977), by Otto Brendel p. 36
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
As quoted in Business Management Controls: A Guide (2012) by John Kyriazoglou, p. 55
Context: Nothing is more ancient than God, for He was never created; nothing more beautiful than the world, it is the work of that same God; nothing is more active than thought, for it flies over the whole universe; nothing is stronger than necessity, for all must submit to it.
“There is nothing more ancient than the truth.”
The Satanic Bible (1969)
7 July 1838
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Source: The Journals of Kierkegaard
My Literary Passions (1895)
“There's nothing more addictive than being a god.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.”
Totem and Taboo : Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics (1913)
1910s
"Home Schooling and Indian Lore"
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)
Quoted in an article, "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?" http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/why_is_there_something_rather_than_nothing, by Victor Stenger (June 2006).
“If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.”
Source: The Dead and the Gone
