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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Paul Géraldy, pen name of Paul Lefevre

What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body, heart and mind, the responsibility of flattering, in our place, the self of which we are not very sure.

Body | Desire | Heart | Love | Mind | Responsibility | Self | Wisdom |

Léon Gambetta

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

Freedom | Wisdom |

Garrett Hardin, fully Garrett James Hardin

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons bring ruin to all.

Freedom | Men | Society | Wisdom | Society |

Arthur Garfield Hays

Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.

Destroy | Freedom | Indignation | Liberty | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Hugo Grotius, also known as Huig de Groot, Hugo Grocio or Hugo de Groot

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together in order to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Body | Men | Order | Rights | Wisdom |

William Havard

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.

Children | Freedom | Glory | People | Wisdom |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Man | Understanding | Wisdom |

Nancy Graves

We are born and we die. By understanding our interrelatedness to the chain gang of life, meaning comes.

Life | Life | Meaning | Understanding | Wisdom |

Edward Howard Griggs

We crave freedom, but freedom is never an end in itself; it is a means to be used for further aims. Its value lies in the extent to which it can assist the development of life. To possess freedom with no life for which to use it is but the bitterest farce. Life never means complete freedom, and every action and relation is an added bond. Life is to be attained, not through a non-moral freedom of caprice, but through a glad welcoming and loyal fulfillment of every bond and obligation which comes in the daily path of life.

Action | Aims | Freedom | Fulfillment | Life | Life | Means | Obligation | Wisdom | Value |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

Freedom | Right | Wisdom |

Francesco Guicciardini

To rule self and subdue our passions is the more praiseworthy because so few know how to do it.

Rule | Self | Wisdom |