Pastoral Resources

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.