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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Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

War | Weapons | Will | World |

Gerald Alexander Larue

The secular or freethinking humanist looks into the self for guidance; response to need comes from deep human feelings of compassion, concern for others, and a desire to help. The freethinker is not motivated by a divine command to act, but rather by personal humanistic response to pain, loneliness, hunger, and homelessness. Benevolent actions are not accompanied by a need to convert or indoctrinate, but rather flow from deep human wellsprings of empathy and a desire to improve the condition of the world.

Compassion | Desire | Empathy | Feelings | Guidance | Hunger | Loneliness | Looks | Need | Pain | Self | World |

Morihei Ueshiba

The art of peace does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

Art | Death | Force | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Peace | Power | Universe | Weapons | Art |

Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee

The cause of the breakdowns of civilizations is not to be found in loss of command over the human environment, as measured by the encroachment of alien human forces... The most that an alien enemy has achieved has been to give an expiring suicide his coup de grace.

Cause | Enemy | Grace | Suicide | Loss |

Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL

No weapons hurt the soul; no fire burns it; no waters moisten it; no wind dries it up. It is imperishable, perpetual, immovable, eternal. Therefore, knowing it thus, you should not grieve.

Eternal | Knowing | Soul | Weapons |

Blaise Pascal

Reason command us far more imperiously than a master; in disobeying the former, fools.

Reason |

Charles Caleb Colton

The author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

Success | Thought | Thought |

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Wealth |

Edmund Burke

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Forbearance | Virtue | Virtue |

Edmund Burke

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Forbearance | Virtue | Virtue |

English Proverbs

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

Man | Riches | Wise |

Eric Hoffer

The source of man's creativeness is in his deficiencies; he creates to compensate himself for what he lacks. He became Homo faber - a maker of weapons and tools - to compensate for his lack of specialized organs. He became Homo ludens - a player, tinker, and artist - to compensate for his lack of inborn skills. He became a speaking animal to compensate for his lack of the telepathic faculty by which animals communicate with each other. He became a thinker to compensate for the ineffectualness of his instincts.

Man | Weapons |

Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Nature |

François Rabelais

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Power | Rule |

Francis Bacon

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason.

Authority | Men | Reason | Words |

French Proverbs

The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them.

Human race | Learning | Race | World | Happiness |

Greek Proverbs

Who would learn to command well must first of all learn to obey.

Learn |

George Washington Carver

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.

Attention | Life | Life | Will | World |

Henry Kissinger, fully Henry Alfred Kissinger

One of the paradoxical lessons of the nuclear age is that at the moment when we are acquiring an unparalleled command over nature, we are forced to realize as never before that the problems of survival will have to be solved above all in the minds of men. In this task the fate of the mammoth and the dinosaur may serve as a warning that brute strength does not always supply the mechanism in the struggle for survival.

Age | Fate | Men | Nature | Problems | Strength | Struggle | Survival | Warning | Will | Fate |