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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Charles P. Steinmetz, fully Charles Proteus Steinmetz, born Karl August Rudolf Steinmetz

Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men... Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.

Day | Force | History | Little | Men | People | Power | Study | Will | Wisdom | World | Learn |

Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof

Everybody has enemies. to have an enemy is quite another thing. One must be somebody to have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Enemy | Force | Wisdom |

Joseph R. Sizoo

Empires build on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain.

Force | Trust | Will | Wisdom |

John Tyndall

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Existence | Wisdom |

Simone Weil

Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.

Belief | Existence | Love | Wisdom |

Lynn White, Jr., fully Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Christianity bears a huge burden of guilt... We shall continue to have a worsening ecological crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Existence | Guilt | Man | Nature | Reason | Wisdom | Crisis |

Simone Weil

To love our neighbors as ourselves does not mean that we should love all people equally, for I do not have an equal love for all the modes of existence of myself. Nor does it mean that we should never make them suffer, for I do not refuse to make myself suffer. But we should have with each person the relationship of one conception of the universe to another conception of the universe, and not to a part of it.

Existence | Love | People | Relationship | Universe | Wisdom |

Peter Weiss, fully Peter Ulrich Weiss

Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature. Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race.

Death | Human race | Indifference | Nature | Race | Wisdom |