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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Felix Adler

The bloom of human life is morality; whatever else we may possess, health and wealth, power, grace, knowledge, have a value only as they lead up to this, have a meaning only as they make this possible.

Grace | Health | Knowledge | Life | Life | Meaning | Morality | Power | Wealth | Value |

Frank Tyger

Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.

Health | Wealth |

François Rabelais

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering - an image of death.

Death | Health | Life | Life | Suffering |

French Proverbs

Who lacks health lacks everything.

Health |

German Proverbs

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost!

Character | Health | Nothing | Wealth |

Herbert Spencer

Vigorous health and its accompanying high spirits are larger elements of happiness than any other things whatever.

Health | Happiness |

Hippocrates, fully known as Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos NULL

One may derive information from the regimen of persons in good health what things are proper; for if it appear that there is a great difference whether the diet be so and so, in other respects, but more especially in the changes, how can it be otherwise in diseases, and more especially in the acute? But it is well ascertained that even a faulty diet of food and drink steadily persevered in, is safer in the main as regards health than if one suddenly change to another.

Change | Diet | Good | Health |

Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau

These motions everywhere in nature must surely be the circulations of God. The flowing sail, the running stream, the waving tree, the roving wind – whence else their infinite health and freedom? I can see nothing so proper and holy as unrelaxed play and frolic in this bower God has built for us.

Freedom | God | Health | Nature | Nothing | Play | God |

Herbert Spencer

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Duty | Health | Morality |

Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, aka Jean Paul Richter

Sleep, riches, and health - to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

Health | Riches |

James Martineau

The health of a community, is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

Health |

Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Body | Health | Mind | Reading | Virtue | Virtue |

Joseph Addison

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us without.

Body | Conscience | Good | Health | Serenity | Soul |

Jon Kabat-Zinn

What is required to participate more fully in our own health and well-being is simply to listen more carefully and to trust what we hear, to trust the messages from our own life, from our own body and mind and feelings.

Body | Feelings | Health | Life | Life | Mind | Trust |

Lin Yutang

Art should be a satire and a warning against our paralyzed emotions, our devitalized thinking and our denaturalized living. It teaches us unsophistication in a sophisticated world. It should restore to us health and sanity caused by too much mental activity. It should sharpen our senses, re-establish the connection between our reason and our human nature, and assemble the ruined parts of a dislocated life again into a whole, by restoring our original nature.

Art | Emotions | Health | Human nature | Life | Life | Nature | Reason | Sanity | Satire | Thinking | Warning | World |

Lewis Thomas

We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health and longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival.

Better | Culture | Health | Hope | Leisure | Need | Science | Survival | Technology | Wisdom |

Luther Burbank

Life is growth - a challenge of environment. If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then this splendid balance of cosmic forces which we call life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction. Therefore, health is the most precious of all things.

Balance | Challenge | Day | Equanimity | Growth | Health | Life | Life | Misfortune | Pleasure |

Joseph Joubert

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Health | Life | Life | Soul | Virtue | Virtue |

Marian Wright Edelman

Just because a child’s parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education, proper nutrition. Clearly we ignore the needs of black children, poor children, and handicapped children in the country.

Care | Children | Education | Health | Parents | Reason | Rights | Child |