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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Christopher Henry Dawson

Religion has its origin in the depths of the soul and it can be understood only by those who are prepared to take the plunge.

Religion | Soul |

R. W. Dixon, fully Richard Watson Dixon

THERE is a soul above the soul of each, A mightier soul, which yet to each belongs: There is a sound made of all human speech, And numerous as the concourse of all songs: And in that soul lives each, in each that soul, Though all the ages are its lifetime vast; Each soul that dies, in its most sacred whole Receiveth life that shall forever last. And thus forever with a wider span Humanity o’erarches time and death; Man can elect the universal man, And live in life that ends not with his breath: And gather glory that increase still Till Time his glass with Death’s last dust shall fill.

Ends | Glory | Life | Life | Sacred | Soul | Sound | Time |

Richard Downey

The soul is not composed of parts, and therefore cannot perish by being resolved into constituents.

Soul |

John Earle, Bishop of Salisbury

A child is a man in a small letter, yet the best copy of Adam before he tasted of Eve, or the Apple... He is Nature’s fresh picture newly drawn in oil, which time and much handling dims and defaces. His soul is yet a white paper unscribbled with observations of the world, wherewith at length it becomes a blurred notebook. He is purely happy because he knows no evil.

Evil | Happy | Man | Nature | Soul | Time | World | Child |

William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

The goal of... life is not to save your soul but to transcend yourself, to vindicate the human struggle of which all of us are a part, to keep hope advancing.

Hope | Life | Life | Soul | Struggle |

Richard Downey

The fact of our being able to form abstract or universal ideas is, in itself, a proof of the immateriality, or, as it is technically called, the spirituality of the soul, a proof that the soul is, in its essence, independent of matter.

Abstract | Ideas | Soul | Spirituality |

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on.

God | Soul | God |

Elio Frattaroli

We find it easy to ignore the inner voice of the soul in our pursuit of external happiness… because we are driven by our own materialistic passions and by our addictive need for quick, painless fixes for anything disturbing in our lives.

Need | Soul |

Elio Frattaroli

I believe that our choice between two models of psychiatry is really a choice between two competing sets of moral values that will ultimately determine the kind of society we live in. One is the Psychotherapeutic Model’s ideal of healing the soul with its values of self-awareness, autonomy, personal growth, an I-Thou spirit of love, respect, and compassion for others, and an acceptance of moral responsibility for our own egoistic impulses and emotions. The other is the Medical Model’s ideal of quick fix, with its swimming-pool values of stability and conformity, and an I-It orientation toward material success and other superficial addictive pleasures

Acceptance | Awareness | Choice | Compassion | Conformity | Emotions | Growth | Love | Model | Respect | Responsibility | Self | Self-awareness | Society | Soul | Spirit | Success | Will | Society |

Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu

My austerities, fastings, and prayers, are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. But they have an inestimable value if they represent, as I hope they do, the yearnings of a soul striving to lay his weary head in the lap of his maker.

Hope | Soul | Yearnings | Value |

Emmet Fox

You positively owe no loyalty to anyone or anything but your own soul – and that is the most sacred loyalty you could have. Your loyalty is due to God, through your own spiritual development.

God | Loyalty | Loyalty | Sacred | Soul |

Zelda Fitzgerald, born Zelda Sayre

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So grow! By doing what is right.

Earth | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Right | Soul |

Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Art | Science | Soul | Art |

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Every soul develops itself only by means of other souls, and there are no longer individual men, but only one humanity.

Humanity | Individual | Means | Men | Soul |

Fihi Ma Fihi NULL

The soul is unconditioned and infinite… Absorption in the Divine Unity is the soul of prayer.

Prayer | Soul | Unity |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

What no human soul desires there is no need to prohibit; it is automatically excluded. The very emphasis of the commandment, Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we spring from an endless ancestry of murderers, with whom the lust for killing was in the blood, as possibly it is to this day with ourselves.

Ancestry | Day | Kill | Lust | Need | Soul |