Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Buddha, Gautama Buddha, or The Buddha, also Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha and Buddha Śākyamuni NULL

He who beholds in all beings in the self and the self in all beings, he never turns away from it. When to a man who understands, the self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity?

Character | Man | Self | Sorrow | Unity | Trouble |

Phillips Brooks

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Character | Man |

Bűchler Sándor or Alexander Bűchler

Suffering should lead man to self-inspection... to the admission of errors... and to prayer and forgiveness.

Character | Forgiveness | Man | Prayer | Self | Suffering |

F. H. Bradley, fully Frances Herbert "F.H." Bradley

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall, he would be willing to repeat.

Character | Man | Silence | Wisdom |

Richard Maurice Bucke, often called Maurice Bucke

The life which is in man is eternal, as all life is eternal; that the soul of man is as immortal as God is; that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all; that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love, and that the happiness of every individual is in the long run absolutely certain.

Character | Eternal | God | Good | Individual | Life | Life | Love | Man | Soul | Universe | Work | World | God | Happiness |

Bias NULL

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

Character | Man | Possessions | Wise |

William Blake

If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Character | Man | Perception |

Buddha, Gautama Buddha, or The Buddha, also Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha and Buddha Śākyamuni NULL

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him; if he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom.

Character | Day | Deeds | Destroy | Faith | Freedom | Greed | Journey | Life | Life | Light | Man | Mindfulness | Nothing | Right | Wisdom | Deeds |

James Boswell

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Character | Man | Practice |

Buddha, Gautama Buddha, or The Buddha, also Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha and Buddha Śākyamuni NULL

The wise man learns to meet the changing circumstances of life with an equitable spirit, being neither elated by success nor depressed by failure. Thus one realizes the truth of non-duality.

Character | Circumstances | Duality | Failure | Life | Life | Man | Spirit | Success | Truth | Wise |

Jean de La Bruyère

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

Character | Fault | Man | Fault |

Claudius Buchanan

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

Character | Good | Knowledge | Man | Purpose | Purpose |

William Blake

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Character | Man |

Boethius, fully Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius NULL

In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.

Character | Ignorance | Man | Nature | Self |