Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Walther Rathenau
German Jewish Industrialist, Politician, Writer and Statesman, Foreign Minister of Germany, Assassinated
"We are not here for the sake of possession, or of power, or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of the human spirit."
"Dare to investigate the sources of your will."
"Truth is inner harmony. "
"A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities."
"We are all guilty in some Measure of the same narrow way of Thinking ... when we fancy the Customs, Dresses, and Manners of other Countries are ridiculous and extravagant, if they do not resemble those of our own."