Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Hermann Keyserling, fully Hermann Alexander Graf Keyserling

Swiss Philosopher

"God is experienced as “Thou” or “I,” according to the spot in which consciousness centers; but the man who experiences Him as “I” experiences Him more profoundly."

"No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime."

"The significance of life is life itself."

"The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts."