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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D. H. Lawrence, fully David Herbert "D.H." Lawrence

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another... Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom... The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences... the world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeonhole any idea. It can't pigeon-hole a new experience.

Experience | Fear | Freedom | Genius | Laughter | Man | Men | Wisdom | World | Old |

Jan Masaryk, fully Jan Garrigue Masaryk

What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance.

Fear | Ignorance | Wisdom | World |

Henry C. Link

Although generalizations are dangerous, I venture to say that at the bottom of most fears, both mild and severe, will be found an overactive mind and an underactive body. Hence, I have advised many people, in their quest for happiness, to use their heads less and their arms and legs more... in useful work or play. We generate fears while we sit; we overcome them in action. Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

Action | Body | Fear | Mind | Nature | People | Play | Warning | Will | Wisdom | Work |

Ambroise de Lombez, Jean de La Peyrie, aka Brother Ambrose, Father Ambrose of Lombez the Enlightenment

By sadness you destroy the divine image in your soul. God is joy. All nature rejoices in him, and would you be sad? A true joy makes the heart fear God.

Destroy | Fear | God | Heart | Joy | Nature | Sadness | Soul | Wisdom | God |

Lucretius, fully Titus Lucretius Carus NULL

Often for fear of death men are seized by a hatred of life, forgetting that this fear is the fountain of all care.

Care | Death | Fear | Life | Life | Men | Wisdom |

James Russell Lowell

Never did poesy appear so full of heaven to me as when I saw how it pierced through pride and fear to the lives of coarsest men.

Fear | Heaven | Men | Pride | Wisdom |

Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

All the wisdom and discourse of the world turns in the end upon this point, to teach us not to fear to die.

Fear | Teach | Wisdom | World |

Carey McWilliams

Anti-Semitism is a social disease. Anti-Semitism is an excellent diagnostic device to use in studying the health and well-being of society. For it is a harbinger of war, the fear of inadequacy that, in moments of crisis, breeds havoc and social panic.

Anti-semitism | Disease | Fear | Health | Panic | Society | War | Wisdom |

Thomas Merton

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Fear | People | Suffering | Torture | Truth | Wisdom |

Baron de Montesquieu, fully Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and in a monarchy honor, so fear is necessary in a despotic government: with regard to virtue, there is no occasion for it, and honor would be extremely dangerous.

Fear | Government | Honor | Regard | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

Joseph Parker

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the loftiest kind thereof comes only of a religious stock - from consciousness of obligation and dependence upon God.

Character | Consciousness | Dependence | God | Indispensable | Obligation | Self | Self-denial | Wisdom |

William Penn

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: “For without faith we cannot please God;” nor can we fear what we do not believe.

Faith | Fear | God | Good | Religion | Wisdom |

William Penn

Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love. What we Love, we'll Hear; what we Love, we'll Trust; and what we Love, we'll serve, ay, and suffer for too. If you love me (says our Blessed Redeemer) keep my Commandments. Why? Why then he'll Love us; then we shall be his Friends; then he'll send us the Comforter; then whatsover we ask, we shall receive; and then where he is we shall be also, and that forever. Behold the Fruits of Love; the Power, Vertue, Benefit and Beauty of Love! Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.

Beauty | Earth | Fear | God | Heaven | Love | Wisdom | Beauty | God | Blessed |

Antoine de Rivarol, also known as Comte de Rivarol

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Fear | Men | Wealth | Wisdom |

Arthur Somers Roche

Worry [anxiety] is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Fear | Mind | Wisdom | Worry |

Francis Quarles

Expect, but fear not, Death: Death cannot kill, till Time (that first must seal his patent) will. Would’st thou live long? keep Time in high esteem: whom gone, if thou canst not recall, redeem.

Death | Esteem | Fear | Kill | Time | Will | Wisdom |