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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Soozi Holbeche

I had a "near death experience" and remember thinking, "If only people knew what it was like to die, they wouldn't be afraid." I reached a point at which a voice began to ask me if I thought I'd completed what I'd come to do. was I going to leave my son, then age three, behind? There was no sense of threat or coercion. An absolute acceptance that whatever I did was all right, but pointing out that the moment of choice was now. The relief and release from the fear of dying changed my life. The reminder that "I am not my body" freed me to live my life in a different way. The understanding that no matter what is going on in our bodies, the essence of who we are is unaffected; this wisdom has enabled me to help other see their bodies in a different way. To see the body in illness not as an enemy, but as a faithful fried, programmed by; the soul to react in that exact way. To see illness as a confrontation in the physical of what one is reluctant to confront on the mental or emotional levels. In other words, a message, a communication, a time to listen and therefore a unique and powerful opportunity for transformation.

Absolute | Acceptance | Age | Body | Choice | Coercion | Death | Enemy | Experience | Fear | Life | Life | Opportunity | People | Right | Sense | Soul | Thinking | Thought | Time | Understanding | Unique | Wisdom | Words | Thought |

Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

Even as we speak, jealous time flees - seize this day, and put little faith in tomorrow.

Day | Faith | Little | Time | Tomorrow | Wisdom |

Aldous Leonard Huxley

We find that the religions, whose theology has been least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently the least violent and most humane in political practice.

Eternity | Events | Practice | Theology | Time | Wisdom |

James Monroe Hubbert

When time ends, eternity begins.

Ends | Eternity | Time | Wisdom |

Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Time | Wisdom |

David Hume

To me, there appear to be only three principles of connection among ideas, namely, Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.

Cause | Ideas | Principles | Time | Wisdom |

Paul Hindemith

We all know the impression of a heavy flash of lightning in the night. Within a second's time we see a broad landscape, not only in its general outlines but with every detail. Although we could never describe each single component of the picture [Sign-mind task], we feel that not even the smallest leaf of grass escapes our attention. We experience a view, immensely comprehensive and at the same time immensely detailed, that we could never have under normal daylight conditions, if our senses and nerves were not strained by the extraordinary suddenness of the event. Compositions must be conceived in the same way.

Attention | Experience | Impression | Mind | Time | Wisdom |

L. Ron Hubbard, fully Lafayette Ronald Hubbard

The game is the thing. The wins and losses are not the thing. One loses every time one wins, for he then has no game.

Time | Wisdom |

Herbert Hoover, fully Herbert Clark Hoover

You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people’s souls and thoughts. Every expansion of government in business means that government in order to protect itself from the political consequences of its errors and wrongs is driven irresistibly without peace to greater and greater control of the nation’s press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

Business | Commerce | Consequences | Control | Free speech | Government | Industry | Life | Life | Means | Order | Peace | People | Speech | Time | Wisdom | Government | Business | Commerce |

Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox

While personal myths give us a sense of identity, continuity, and security, they become constricting and boring if they are not revised from time to time. To remain vibrant through a lifetime, we must always be reinventing ourselves, weaving new themes into our life-narratives, remembering our past, re-visioning our future, reauthorizing the myth by which we live.

Future | Life | Life | Myth | Past | Security | Sense | Time | Wisdom |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing.

Challenge | Discovery | Humanity | Mankind | Power | Time | Wisdom | Discovery |

Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla

No time exists other than now... So now is all you have and all you ever will have... Why not begin doing the best you can right where you are?... Trust the process of growth. Trust God. Pay attention to the details of your life, doing your very best with each challenge that presents itself... The past is the raw material of the present, but the past is not a blueprint for the present... Begin where you are. Do what you can. Even a small effort to change, to grow, to improve, will bring astonishing results... You can choose to build on what you were, but you are not what you were. You can focus on what you will be, but you are not what you will be. What you are is what you are right now - the inheritor of all of God’s gifts.

Attention | Challenge | Change | Effort | Focus | God | Growth | Life | Life | Past | Present | Right | Time | Trust | Will | Wisdom |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Time | Wisdom |

Thomas Jefferson

What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?

People | Spirit | Time | Wisdom |

Charles F. Kettering, fully Charles Franklin Kettering

The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try.

Time | Wisdom |

Gloria D. Karpinski

I didn’t believe in reincarnation the last time either.

Time | Wisdom |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

The supreme reality of our time is our indivisibility as children of God and the common vulnerability of this planet.

Children | God | Reality | Time | Wisdom | God |