Great Throughts Treasury

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Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

If your heart vibrate looking Resist oppression then silence is a form of treason because

Beauty | Life | Life | People | Spirit | Understanding | Will | Beauty |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

The unity and continuity of Vedanta are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics. This is entirely consistent with the Vedanta concept of All in One.

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

Body | Consciousness | Greatness | Men | Nothing | Position | Race | System | Theories | Truth | Will | Truths |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

And where is yet farther proof of the truth of the theory of descent to be found?

Law | Nothing |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

In many of these languages there are numerals only for one, two, and three: no Australian language counts beyond four. Very many wild tribes can count no further than ten or twenty, whereas some very clever dogs have been made to count up to forty and even beyond sixty.

Existence | Faith | Force | History | Knowledge | Necessity | Nothing | Position | Science | Work |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

The effort needed to sustain a way of life which seeks to attain the optimal pattern of consumption is likely to be much smaller than the effort needed to sustain a drive for maximum consumption.

Effort | Labor | Machines | Means | Nothing | People |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The university cannot be an ivory tower, far away from the society, removed from the practical accomplishments of the Revolution. If such an attitude is maintained, the university will continue giving our society lawyers that we do not need.

Important |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

From an economic point of view, the central concept of wisdom is permanence. We must study an economics of permanence.

Important | Means | People | Surrender | Truth |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

What is to take the place of the soul and life-destroying metaphysics inherited from the nineteenth century? The task of our generation, I have no doubt, is one of metaphysical reconstruction… Our task – and the task of all education – is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

Meaning | People |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.

Important | Life | Life | Order | Study |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

If our intellectual leaders treat work as nothing but a necessary evil soon to be abolished as far as the majority is concerned, the urge to minimize it right away is hardly a surprising reaction, and the problem of motivation becomes insoluble.

Envy | Greed | Inevitable | Man | Nothing | Power | Problems |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

Now, one does not have to be a believer in total equality, whatever that may mean, to be able to see that the existence of inordinately rich people in any society today is a very great evil.

Man | Means | Peace | Question | Regard |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

Dignity |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

We are, I believe, at the moment in grave danger of missing the 'path to perfection'.

Ability | Consciousness | Ego | Knowledge | Man | Nothing |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The natural advantages of the cultivation of sugar in Cuba are obvious, but the predominant fact is that Cuba was developed as a sugar factory of the United States.

Life | Life | Man | Property | Worth |

Estonian Proverbs

Who wants to teach others has to be learned himself.

Enemy | Friend | Wants |

Estonian Proverbs

Who weds a widow with three children takes four thieves into his house.

Wants | Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who wants will get.

Teach | Wants |

Ethiopian Proverbs

A partner in the business will not put an obstacle to it.

Wants |

Étienne Gilson, fully Étienne Henry Gilson

Thus the same statement that guarantees that God exists and that his most suitable name is He Who Is, also reveals to us the perfect simplicity of the divine essence. And indeed, God did not say: I am this or that, but simply I Am. I am what? I am ‘I Am.’ So, more than ever, the statement of Exodus seems to soar above in a kind of empty space, where the attraction of the weight of philosophy can no longer be felt. The work of reason is good, healthy, and important, for it proves that, left to itself, philosophy can establish with certitude the existence of the primary being whom everyone calls God. But a single word of the sacred text at once puts us in personal relations with him. We say his name, and by the simple fact of saying it, it teaches us the simplicity of the divine essence.

Absolute | Experience | Light | Man | Truth | Intellect |