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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Theodore Parker

Every man has, at times, in his mind the ideal of what should be, but is not. In all men that seek to improve, it is better than the actual character.

Better | Character | Man | Men | Mind |

Tatjana Patitz

I believe that being true to the self is the most important thing in life - to have a free heart, a pure soul and a pure mind. We all live, or should live, for the fulfillment of the self. We are all mirror images of each other; whatever we feel in ourselves we feel in others. I believe that we create our own lives... Intuition should play the main role in everything we do. Through the creative source of the mind and the unlimited power of the spirit all our deepest wishes come true. For me the meaning is that we are all one, and the only true reality is the spirit. Believing in the power of spirit is simply to have a passion for life, to learn, to grow, to evolve and most of all to love, and live each day and each moment of the day to the fullest.

Character | Day | Fulfillment | Heart | Important | Intuition | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Mind | Passion | Play | Power | Reality | Self | Soul | Spirit | Wishes |

Plotinus NULL

Those divinely possessed and inspired have at least the knowledge that they hold some greater thing within them, though they cannot tell what it is; from the movements that stir them and the utterances that come from them they perceive the power, not themselves, that moves them: I the same way, it must be, we stand towards the Supreme when we hold nous pure; we know the Divine Mind within, that which gives Being and all else of that order: but we know, too, that other, know that it is none of these, but a nobler principle than anything we know as Being; fuller and greater; above reason, mind and feeling; conferring these powers, not to be confounded with them.

Character | Knowledge | Mind | Order | Power | Reason |

Alexander Pope

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind that for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his brain broke.

Body | Character | Despise | Humanity | Man | Mind |

Alden C. Palmer

An empty mind is little different from an empty house. It, too, soon decays. Just as muscles die when not used, so the brain is weakened through idleness. It needs relaxation and entertainment. But it also needs exercise. It needs and must have work, or it will wither. It must be lived in.

Character | Entertainment | Idleness | Little | Mind | Will | Work |

Joseph Parker

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul; so only can you be true to God.

Character | Conscience | God | Heart | Individual | Mind | Respect | Self | Soul |

William Robertson

A contented mind is a continual feast.

Character | Mind |

Publius Syrus

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Body | Character | Mind | Pain | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Character | Mind | Soul |

Publius Syrus

The eyes are blind when the mind is elsewhere.

Character | Mind |

Publius Syrus

The noble mind does not admit an insult.

Character | Insult | Mind |

Francis Quarles

To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

Adversity | Character | Glory | Mind | Spirit |

Winfred Rhoades, fully Winfred Chesney Rhoades

Not the state of the body but the state of mind and soul is the measure of the well-being of each of us.

Body | Character | Mind | Soul |

Gabriel Riesser

May those who represent advanced views bear in mind that true wisdom is always joined with mildness, that malice never converts the erring but strengthens him in his attitude, and that it is very unfitting to combat error (so long as this does not assume the aspect of injustice) with the weapons of hatred.

Character | Error | Malice | Mind | Weapons | Wisdom |

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, fully Field Marshal Sir William Joseph "Bill" Slim

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

Action | Character | Mind |

Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar

Freedom is spiritual. Divinity is the expression of integrity... Mind cannot find fun anywhere but God.

Character | Divinity | Freedom | Fun | God | Integrity | Mind |