Great Throughts Treasury

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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

People | Perception |

Albert Einstein

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Art | Life | Life | Men | Motives | Nature | Perception | Science | World | Art |

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav or Breslov, aka Reb Nachman Breslover or Nachman from Uman NULL

The only way to know God is through complete faith. Only faith can bring you to true knowledge and perception of God's greatness: "And I will betroth you to Me with faith, and you shall know God ! " (Hosea 2:22).

Faith | God | Knowledge | Perception | Will | God |

Ram Dass, aka Baba Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert

I have incredible empathy for their perception of reality, partly because of what I

Empathy | Perception |

Raymond Chandler, fully Raymond Thornton Chandler

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Necessity | Perception | Writing |

René Descartes

This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.

Memory | Perception | Rule | Following | Intellect |

Richard Whately

It may be said, almost without qualification, that the wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive.

Knowledge | Past | Perception | Wisdom |

Robertson Davies

Humor very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense they run to the UN and say, I must have an ombudsman to protect me. You hardly dare have a shrewd perception about anybody.

Fun | Perception |

Rudolf Steiner, fully Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner

Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.

Man | Perception | Soul | World |

Rudolf Driekurs

Men's insistence on being of service sometimes expresses less consideration than girls like to believe. Helping women, treating them, bestowing gifts -these things are done much more for the donor's sake, as assertions of his superiority.

Perception | Reality |

Rudolf Steiner, fully Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

Aims | Awareness | Body | Evolution | Nature | Nothing | Perception | Present | Self | Spirit | Work | World | Awareness |

Samuel Alexander

Instinct has introduced us to the existence of a qualifying or tied conative tendency.

Distinguish | Perception |

Samuel Alexander

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

Mind | Perception |

Samuel Alexander

Theoretical acts of mind are such as subserve the continuance of the object before the mind without alteration of it.

Perception |

Samuel Alexander

Thus we have to recognize that a thing as perceived contains besides sensory elements other elements present to the mind only in ideal form.

Object | Perception |

Saint Bonaventure, born John of Fidanza Bonaventure

The One so good and so great desires you to embrace him and is waiting to embrace you.

Abstract | Doctrine | Eternal | Glory | God | Heart | Isolation | Life | Life | Light | Means | Nature | God |

Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL

A serpent guards its head when its body is being crushed, and a wise monk guards his faith at all times, for this is the origin of his life.

Age | Future | Man | Mind | Perception | Wisdom | World |

Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL

Just as fish perish from lack of water, so the meditative movements that God causes to blossom forth vanish from the heart of the monk who loves to dwell and pass his life in company with worldly men.

Life | Life | Man | Mind | Perception | Present |

John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom

Now if we are willing to examine the Scriptures in this way, carefully and systematically, we shall be able to obtain our salvation. If we unceasingly are preoccupied with them, we shall learn both correctness of doctrine and an upright way of life.

Deeds | Defense | Difficulty | God | Life | Life | Perception | Pleasure | Present | Reason | Regard | Time | Waste | Will | Words | Deeds | Loss | God | Learn |

Salman Rushdie, fully Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie

The former colonial powers were drawing lines all over the world. And many of the ills of the world since then are the consequence of those acts.

Isolation | Time |