Great Throughts Treasury

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Joseph Addison

`Tis the divinity that stirs within us; `tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man. Eternity! Thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

Divinity | Eternity | Heaven | Man | Thought |

Joseph Addison

‘Tis the divinity that stirs within us; ‘tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

Divinity | Eternity | Heaven | Man |

Joseph Addison

In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect, of a religious life.

Heaven | Life | Life | Reward |

Joseph Addison

Music is the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.

Good | Heaven | Music |

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Daring | Disease | Loneliness | People |

Kahlil Gibran

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the good ness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.

Beauty | Despair | Earth | Eternal | God | Good | Happy | Heaven | Life | Life | Man | Purpose | Purpose | Sorrow | Spirit | Will | Worship | Beauty | Learn |

Karen Horney, born Danielsen

It would not be going too far to assert that… conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and hwo is… unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

Daring | Woman |

Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Heaven | Man | Universe |

Marianne Williamson

The meaning of life is that we love one another. The purpose of our lives, it seems to me, is to learn how to do that, so we can create a world where everyone’s in love with everyone all the time. That would be Heaven on earth.

Earth | Heaven | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Purpose | Purpose | Time | World | Learn |

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born Mahesh Prasad Varma

Physics has discovered the edge of infinity; the wisdom of the ages takes us across the border, which is nowhere but in us. When each person rejoins the stream of evolution that upholds the galaxies ands sweeps life forward on the wave of eternity, human existence will cease to contain any suffering, and our real purpose in living - to create heaven on earth - will be realized.

Earth | Eternity | Evolution | Existence | Heaven | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Suffering | Will | Wisdom |

Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Salvation is not putting a man into Heaven, but putting Heaven into a man.

Heaven | Man | Salvation |

Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim

In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all is ours.

Heaven |

Mencius, born Meng Ke or Ko NULL

When our senses of sight and hearing are distracted by the things outside, without the participation of thought, then the material things act upon the material senses and lead them astray. That is the explanation. The function of the mind is thinking: when you think, you keep your mind, and when you don’t think, you lose your mind. This is what heaven has given to us. One who cultivates his higher self will find that his lower self follows in accord. That is how a man becomes a great man.

Heaven | Man | Mind | Self | Thinking | Thought | Will |

Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.

Associates | Equality | Heaven | Mystery | Order | Religion |

Oliver Goldsmith

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

Happy | Heaven | Philosophy | Religion | Happiness |

Plato NULL

Truth is the beginning of every good thing both in Heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of the truth, for then he can be trusted.

Beginning | Earth | Good | Happy | Heaven | Truth | Blessed |

Philip James Bailey

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

Heaven | Imperfection |

Philip James Bailey

Let each man think himself an act of God, his mind a thought, his life a breath of God; and let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, to show the most of heaven he hath in him.

Deeds | God | Good | Heaven | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Thought | Think |

Plato NULL

Evils... can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. Having no place among the Gods in heaven, of necessity they hover around the earthly nature and this mortal sphere. Wherefore we ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like Him is to become holy and just and wise.

Earth | God | Good | Heaven | Mortal | Nature | Necessity | Wise |

Plato NULL

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be fro the first a partaker of the truth, that he may live a true man as long as possible, for then he an be trusted; but he is not to be trusted who loves voluntary falsehood and he who loves involuntary falsehood is a fool.

Beginning | Earth | Falsehood | Good | Happy | Heaven | Man | Truth | Blessed |