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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Stendhal, pen name of Marie Henn Beyle or Marie-Henri Beyle NULL

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

Beginning | Character | Health |

Stephen Charnock

This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.

Contentment | Desire | Man | Nothing | Rest | Soul | World |

Theodor W. Adorno, born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

Health |

Theodor W. Adorno, born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund

The division of the world into important and unimportant matters, which has always served to neutralize the key phenomena of social injustice as mere exceptions, should be followed up to the point where it is convicted of its own untruth. The division which makes everything objects must itself become an object of thought, instead of guiding it.

Health | Reason |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it — the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Achievement | Better | Chance | Comfort | Health | Life | Life | Man | Nothing | Object | Qualities | Right | Sympathy | Woman | Work | Worth |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Much can be done by law towards putting women on a footing of complete and entire equal rights with man - including the right to vote, the right to hold and use property, and the right to enter any profession she desires on the same terms as the man... Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

Better | Conservation | Duty | Existence | Exploit | Government | Health | Important | Land | People | Race | Training | Will | Work | Worth | Government |

Thich Nhất Hanh

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future.

Health | Responsibility | Will |

Thomas Carlyle

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Body | Health |

Thomas Dekker

Few for heaven would care, should they be ever happy.

Health | Little | Pleasure | Taste |

Thomas Dekker

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Health |

Thomas Guthrie

If the world is ever conquered for Christ, it will be by every one doing their own work, filling their own sphere, holding their own post, and saying to Jesus, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do.

Good | Health | Heart |

Thomas Hardy

Unto this wood I came As to a nest; Dreaming that sylvan peace Offered the harrowed ease- Nature a soft release From men's unrest

Beauty | Dignity | Health | Prison | Size | Beauty |

Thomas Jefferson

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Health | Perfection | Virtue | Virtue |

Thomas Jefferson

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Art | Health | Religion | Worship | Art |

Thomas Jefferson

I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

Art | Health | Worship | Art |

Thomas Jefferson

Locke denies toleration to those who entertain opinions contrary to those moral rules necessary for the preservation of society; as for instance, that faith is not to be kept with those of another persuasion… that dominion is founded in grace, or who will not own and teach the duty of tolerating all men in matters of religion, or who deny the existence of a god (it was a great thing to go so far—as he himself says of the parliament who framed the act of toleration… He says 'neither Pagan nor Mahomedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.' Shall we suffer a Pagan to deal with us and not suffer him to pray to his god? Why have Christians been distinguished above all people who have ever lived, for persecutions? Is it because it is the genius of their religion? No, it’s genius is the reverse. It is the refusing toleration to those of a different opinion which has produced all the bustles and wars on account of religion. It was the misfortune of mankind that during the darker centuries the Christian priests following their ambition and avarice combining with the magistrate to divide the spoils of the people, could establish the notion that schismatics might be ousted of their possessions and destroyed. This notion we have not yet cleared ourselves from.

Health | Individual | Pleasure | Happiness |

Thomas Jefferson

Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, andc. The latter fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society; the former consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

Attention | Degeneracy | Evil | Good | Government | Health | Liberty | Little | Mankind | Observation | Public | Punishment | Rights | Sound | Truth | Will | World | Government |

Thomas Jefferson

The catholic principle of republicanism is that every people may establish what form of government they please and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

Care | God | Health | Law | Men | Neglect | Soul | Will | God |