Great Throughts Treasury

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Václav Havel

I have had direct experience of this myself. Often, what the press wrote, or did not write, about a remark I made somewhere proved to be of a far greater consequence than the remark itself. Democratic choice in such cases ceases to be a choice between alternatives people are familiar with, and have personally tried, and becomes a choice between alternatives offered by those who run the media.

Good | Important | Reason | Sensibility | Taste |

Václav Havel

The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.

Association | Civilization | Conduct | Culture | Events | Fate | Global | History | Human race | Humanity | Race | Reason | Rights | Unique | War | World | Fate | Association |

Vannevar Bush

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

Panic | Reason |

Václav Havel

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Experience | Reason | Absurdity |

Vannevar Bush

The advanced arithmetical machines of the future will be electrical in nature, and they will perform at 100 times present speeds, or more.

Action | Duty | Need | Neglect | Reason | Search |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

Heart | Rank | Reason |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

The reason that philosophers and glory makes heroes, the only virtue is wise.

Reason |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Heart | Justice | Self-interest |

Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella

And when there is no wind a beast draws along a huge cart, which is a grand sight.

Art | Earth | God | Human race | Justice | Play | Race | Will | Art | God |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

Those who are not able to please women get corrected.

Reason | Think |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

Anything that flatters our vanity more is only based on the culture that we despise.

Reason |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

The reason she blushed tendencies cannot account for.

Reason |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

Women and young people develop their separate estimates of their tastes.

Appearance | Blame | Justice | Law | Order | Rights | Rule | Universe |

Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun

The spirits and immortals of old had no special tricks; they were simply happy as could be, and they never worried." This should be the motto of all cultivators.

Practice | Reason |

Tryon Edwards

It was a beautiful and striking reply, given by one in affliction, who, when asked how it was that he bore it so well, replied, - "It lightens the stroke, I find, to draw near to Him who handles the rod."

Death | Heaven | Hunger | Life | Life | Reason | War |

Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella

They use baths, and moreover they have warm ones according to the Roman custom, and they make use also of olive oil. They have found out, too, a great many secret cures for the preservation of cleanliness and health. And in other ways they labor to cure the epilepsy, with which they are often troubled.

Fear | Little | Love | Power | Property | Reason | Riches | Self-love | Wife | Riches |