Pastoral Resources

A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.