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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Paul Tyner

For this cause he came into the world; that he might be a witness to the truth; a living, unimpeachable witness of the truth that shall make us free - the truth of man’s religion (reunion) with God, through absolute spiritual self consciousness - with God - with the Eternal, Omnipotent and Omniscient Source and Fountain of Life, “in whom we live and move and have our being,” without whom we are not!

Absolute | Cause | Character | Consciousness | Eternal | God | Life | Life | Man | Religion | Self | Truth | Witness | World | God |

Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL

He is the greater friend whose censure heals than he whose flattery anoints the head.

Censure | Flattery | Friend | Wisdom |

Richard Whately

Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.

Character | Truth | Wishes |

Apocrypha NULL

Love truth and it will preserve you.

Love | Truth | Will | Wisdom |

Pietro Arentino

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Hate | Love | Truth | Wisdom |

Edwin Percy Whipple

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

Character | Dignity | Truth |

Henry Wotton, fully Sir Henry Wotton

How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another’s will; Whose armor is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill! Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,— What are you when the moon shall rise? An itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men’s stuff. Idle time not idly spent. Now all nature seemed in love, and birds had drawn their valentines.

Character | Happy | Nature | People | Skill | Thought | Time | Truth | Will |

John Stuart Blakie

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

Existence | Law | Order | Time | Truth | Wisdom |

William Beveridge

It calls in my spirits, composes my thoughts, delights my ear, recreates my mind, and so not only fits me for after business, but fills my heart, at the present, with pure and useful thoughts; so that when the music sounds the sweetliest in my ears, truth commonly flows the clearest into my mind.

Business | Heart | Mind | Music | Present | Truth | Wisdom |

George Bancroft

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Beauty | Justice | Law | Moral law | Soul | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

Charles Pierre Baudelaire

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

Events | Life | Life | Punishment | Suffering | Truth | Wisdom | Work | Learn |

Charlotte Joko Beck

Our life is always absolute: that’s all there is. The truth is not somewhere else. But we have minds that are trying to burn the past or the future. The living present - Buddhahood - is rarely encountered.

Absolute | Future | Life | Life | Past | Present | Truth | Wisdom |

James Beattie

How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!

Love | Truth | Wisdom | Words |