Pastoral Resources

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.