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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Greta Woodrew, Pseud. for Greta Andron Smolowe

The body is a servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind. There is a mind/body connection that is powerful. As a healer, I am convinced disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sick thoughts express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear can kill a man. People who live in fear of disease are most likely the very people who get the disease. Conversely, if you would improve your body, guard your mind.

Body | Circumstances | Disease | Fear | Health | Kill | Man | Mind | People | Thought | Wisdom |

William Wordsworth

These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together - manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance.

Dependence | Self | Self-reliance | Wisdom |

Herman Wouk

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

Fear | Love | Peace | War | Will | Wisdom |

John Witherspoon

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.

Fear | God | Man | Wisdom | God |

Joseph Whitfield

Now that man has again evolved to a point where he can make the transition into fourth dimensional consciousness, communication and contacts with extraterrestrial beings has greatly increased. The presence of extraterrestrials should be on of the most reassuring events that is taking place on Earth. Instead, it is often the cause of great fear and apprehension. Fear is born of ignorance. Were it not so, people would welcome their space brothers with open arms. All major governments have repeatedly received information to explain the ET presence. They have been ignored as the product of a deranged mind. At some point some one must come to the realization that the problem of the existence of spacecraft is not going to disappear because man officially refuses to recognize their presence.

Cause | Consciousness | Earth | Events | Existence | Fear | Ignorance | Man | Mind | People | Space | Wisdom |

Louis K. Anspacher, fully Louis Kannan Anspacher

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Dependence | Man | Marriage | Obligation | Woman |

Saint Thomas Aquinas, aka Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis or Doctor Universalis

Every prudent man tolerates a lesser evil for fear of preventing a greater good.

Evil | Fear | Good | Man |

Frank Forrester Church III

There is such a thing as hell on earth. For the most part, it is populated by people who fear so deeply that they cannot love.

Earth | Fear | Hell | Love | People |

Joyce Cary

One does not fear God because He is terrible, but because he is literally the soul of goodness and truth, because to do him wrong is to do wrong to some mysterious part of oneself.

Fear | God | Soul | Truth | Wrong | God |

Francis Herbert Bradley

In religion fear and approval to some extent must always combine... In religion approval implies devotion, and devotion seems hardly possible, unless there is some fear, if only the fear of estrangement.

Devotion | Fear | Religion | Approval |

Miles Davis, fully Miles Dewey Davis III

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Fear |

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their primitive forms are accessible to our minds – it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitutes true religiosity; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

Art | Beauty | Existence | Experience | Fear | Good | Knowledge | Man | Mystery | Reason | Religion | Science | Sense | Wonder | Art |

L. Francis Edmunds

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Art | Experience | Fear | Good | Mystery | Religion | Science | Wonder | Art |

Sheila Collins

We were never promised a life free from fear and struggle. We were offered the hope that by committing ourselves to the struggle for a righteous society in solidarity with the wretched of the earth we would discover the secret of life.

Earth | Fear | Hope | Life | Life | Society | Struggle | Society |