Pastoral Resources

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.