Great Throughts Treasury

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

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Adolph Hitler

In view of the primitive simplicity of their minds, [the masses] more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a little one.

Little | Simplicity | Victim |

Alan Cohen

Quiet and unacclaimed acts are, to me, the real margin of greatness. Greatness is not in popularity, wealth, or long life, as most people believe. Real greatness is in simplicity and supportive words. It is in firm encouragement and gentle patience. It is in finding god in the midst of the turmoil of the marketplace, and remembering His goodness during hardship. No, greatness is not always found in those whom the world calls its heroes, but in the unheard of saints who unselfishly serve their families, lend a kind ear to a friend in despair, and lovingly see the Best in those who have become too accustomed to seeing themselves as mediocre.

Despair | Friend | God | Greatness | Life | Life | Patience | People | Popularity | Quiet | Simplicity | Turmoil | Wealth | Words | World | God |

Alfred North Whitehead

Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Distrust | Simplicity |

Charles Caleb Colton

The farther we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Knowledge | Simplicity |

Edmund Burke

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing process.

Heart | Simplicity |

Gordon Willard Allport

All the great religions of the world supply, for those who can subscribe to their arguments and affirmations, a world-conception that has logical simplicity and serene majesty.

Simplicity | World |

Joan Borysenko

We are all interconnected and help being one another into the expression of our full potential through words, thoughts, and deeds that are unimaginable in their simplicity and untraceable in their complexity…Integrity means wholeness. Actions are whole when they conform to inner believes.

Deeds | Integrity | Means | Simplicity | Wholeness | Words | Deeds |

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Voluntary simplicity keeps me mindful of what is important, of an ecology of mind and body and world in which everything is interconnected and every choice has far-reaching consequences. You don’t get to control it at all. But choosing simplicity whenever possible adds to life an element of deepest freedom which so easily eludes us, and many opportunities to discover that less may actually be more.

Body | Choice | Consequences | Control | Freedom | Important | Life | Life | Mind | Simplicity | World |

Plato NULL

God is a Being of perfect simplicity and truth, both in deed and word, and neither changes in himself nor imposes upon others.

God | Simplicity | Truth |

Plato NULL

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity — I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Beauty | Good | Grace | Harmony | Mind | Simplicity | Style |

Plato NULL

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I meant he true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?

Beauty | Character | Folly | Good | Grace | Harmony | Mind | Simplicity | Style |

Richard Feynman, fully Richard Phillips Feynman

Nature has simplicity and therefore great beauty.

Beauty | Nature | Simplicity |

Stuart Alexander Chase

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.

Character | Little | Simplicity |

T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. We started and know the place for the first time. Through the unknown remembered gate where the earth left to discover is that which was the beginning. At the source of the longest river, the voice of the hidden waterfall and the children in the apple tree. Not known, because not looked for. But heart, half heard in the stillness between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now always a condition of complete simplicity costing not less than everything. And all shall beware and all manner of things shall beware when the tongues of flames are enfolded into the crown not of fire, and the fire and the rose are one.

Beginning | Children | Earth | Heart | Simplicity | Time | Will |

Thomas Kempis, aka Thomas à Kempis, Thomas von Kempen, Thomas Haemerkken or Hammerlein or Hemerken or Hämerken

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys Him.

Earth | God | Intention | Man | Nature | Purity | Simplicity |

Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson

Simplicity deepens life. It magnifies the simple virtues on which man’s survival depends: humility, faith, courage, serenity, honesty, patience, justice, tolerance, thrift. Simplicity is the arrow of the spirit.

Courage | Faith | Honesty | Humility | Justice | Life | Life | Man | Patience | Serenity | Simplicity | Spirit | Survival | Thrift |