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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Walter Lippmann

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

Consequences | Events | Government | Men | Public | Thought | Will | Government | Crisis | Thought |

Wang Wei, aka Wang Youcheng

This is a rare opportunity and we hope our partners will make friends with as many IOC worldwide partners as possible to learn from their experiences and strategies in marketing, sales and services which are very helpful to the Olympic marketing of the 2008 Games, and we are confident that these experience will become a precious legacy for the Chinese enterprises after 2008.

Honor | Peace | Quiet |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Acceptance | Enlightenment | Quiet |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining dizzying heights of happiness and fulfillment.

Consequences | Opinion | Wants | Will |

Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray

A relevant, famous quote from the Tao is "Ruling a country is like frying a small fish". A good chef will tell you that, when frying a fish (especially a small one), if you keep moving the frying pan and flipping the fish, it will fall apart and become tasteless.

Indignation | Quiet |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Your thoughts are something that you control and they originate with you.

Quiet | Right | Soul | Space | Will |

Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray

Humility, metaphysically, implies the absence of any entity to be either 'proud' or 'humble'.

Attainment | Consequences |

Wayne Muller

All life requires a rhythm of rest.

God | Life | Life | Music | Quiet | God |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Tapping into the essence of originating Spirit, emulating the attributes of the creative force of intention, and manifesting into your life anything that you desire that's consistent with the universal mind...

God | Meditation | Quiet | Sound | Success | Time | God |

Wendell Berry

And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer.

Earth | Need | Quiet |

Wendell Berry

At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the wind waves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.

Machines | Nothing | Quiet | Silence | World |

Wendell Berry

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

Enough | Freedom | Giving | Illusion | Man | Money | Noise | Peace | People | Play | Promise | Quiet | Slavery | Wonder | Old | Think |

Wendell Berry

Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Earth | Love | Need | Quiet |

Wendell Berry

The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of Sabbaths.

Quiet |

William Henley, fully William Ernest Henley

Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the Horror of the shade, and yet the menace of the years finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Influence | Quiet | Work |

W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy

Birth is an initiation into the ability to carry pain. We resist pain, but it has a transcendental nature.

Consequences | Learn |

W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy

Seeking world peace is not about peace, it is power and control all under the guise of service to humanity.

Ability | Appreciation | Enough | Experience | Means | Mind | Music | Nature | People | Quiet | Silence | Struggle | Talking | Writing | Appreciation |

W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy

We are so involved in masks, and intensities, and inflations we can’t see the authentic in us. The primitive drives are Transcendental and you undergo a sacrifice by no longer identifying them as yours. Then, there’s a most amazing experience that takes place: your natural power comes through. When the ego surrenders wrapping itself around something, you realize you are imbued by something else, and have been all along, and your task is to find the simplicity mystery in relationship to that, so that when it is operating you recognize it is operating through you, but you don’t identify with it either consciously or unconsciously. You offer yourself as a Vehicle – it’s a mystery of relationship to the larger forces.

Consequences | Learning |

Wallace Stevens

Day after day, throughout the winter, we hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason in a world of wind and frost.

Books | Church | Doubt | Quiet |

Walker Percy

How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.

Future | Life | Life | Past | People | Present | Quiet | Rest |