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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Elizabeth Gilbert

You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two...But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look thorough your heart, instead

Desire | Reason | Success |

Elizabeth Gilbert

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. This, in part, is how we become annexes of each other, trellises on which each other's biography can grow.

Advertising | Enjoyment | Insecurity | Need | People | Worth |

Elizabeth Gilbert

To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

Enjoyment | Means | Rhetoric |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In our age faith and charity are found, but they are found apart. We tolerate everybody, because we doubt everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something.

Desire | Faith |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.

Cause | Desire | Means | Object | Suffering | Will | Happiness | Think |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

It is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men is not to be compared.

Desire | Life | Life |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

Comfort | Desire | God | Good | Posterity | God |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Cause | Desire | Duty | God | Nothing | Prosperity | God |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

Desire |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

My mind was never to invade my neighbors.

Desire | Distrust | Fear |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

Desire | Religion |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

Desire |

Emil M. Cioran

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Desire |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

Love and thoughts are not in space and time.

Desire | Good | Joy | Kindness | Life | Life |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.

Desire |

Emile Zola

My nights would otherwise be haunted by the spectre of the innocent man, far away, suffering the most horrible of tortures for a crime he did not commit.

Desire | Eternal | God | Good | Happy | Heaven | Humanity | Life | Life | Longing | God | Happiness |

Emma Goldman

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us to-day... The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.

Birth | Body | Earth | Enjoyment | Guarantee | Heart | Human nature | Individual | Liberty | Men | Mind | Nature | Observation | Order | Peace | Purpose | Purpose | Restraint | Soul | Study | Teach | Wickedness | Will | World |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.

Desire |

Emma Goldman

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.

Desire | Individual | Integrity | Nothing | People | Plenty | War | Wisdom |

Emma Goldman

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

Body | Earth | Enjoyment | Guarantee | Individual | Mind | Order | Purpose | Purpose | Restraint | Will |