Great Throughts Treasury

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Emma Goldman

The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every indignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.

Energy | Experience | Individual | Life | Life | Peace | War | Waste |

Emma Goldman

When a child has reached manhood, he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

Men | Order | Present | Will | Work |

Emmanuel Lévinas , originally Emanuelis Lévinas

The oneself does not rest in peace under its identity, and yet its restlessness is not a dialectical scission, nor a process equalizing difference. Its unity is not just added on to some content of ipseity, like the indefinite article which substantifies even verbs, 'nominalizing' and thematizing them. Here the unity precedes every article and every process; it is somehow itself the content.

Consciousness | Evidence | Man | Peace | Play | War |

Empedocles NULL

And many a fire there burns beneath the ground. [On the volcano]

Evil | Man | Men | Mind | Nothing | Wise |

Empedocles NULL

There is no discord and no unseemly strife in his limbs.

Life | Life | Men | Order | Time |

Emmet Fox

Refuse to tolerate anything less than harmony. You can have prosperity no matter what your present circumstances may be. You can have health and physical fitness. You can have a happy and joyous life. You can have a good home of your own. You can have congenial friends and comrades. You can have a full, free, joyous life, independent and untrammeled. You can become your own master or your own mistress. But to do this you must definitely seize the rudder of your own destiny and steer boldly and firmly for the port that you intend to make.

Ability | Absolute | Acquaintance | Action | Attention | Delay | Difficulty | Faith | God | Harmony | Man | Means | Mind | Need | Peace | Power | Prayer | Quiet | Struggle | Time | Truth | Will | Trial | God | Child | Think |

Empedocles NULL

Come now, hear how the Fire as it was separated caused the night-born shoots of men and tearful women to arise; for my tale is not off the point nor uninformed. Whole-natured forms first arose from the earth, having a portion both of water and fire. These did the fire, desirous of reaching its like, send up, showing as yet neither the charming form of the limbs, nor yet the voice and parts that are proper to men.

Cause | Conduct | Day | Honor | Madness | Men | Mortal | Right |

English Proverbs

All men can't be masters.

Men |

Emmanuel Lévinas , originally Emanuelis Lévinas

The relation with the other will always be offering and gift, never an approach with ‘empty hands’.

Peace | Rest | Restlessness | Unity |

English Proverbs

Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.

Men |

English Proverbs

Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.

Peace |

English Proverbs

Bad money drives out good.

Men |

English Proverbs

Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.

Men |

English Proverbs

With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.

Men | Think |

English Proverbs

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .

Men |

English Proverbs

When wine is in wit is out.

Men |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Day | Men |

Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

Better | Peace | War | Think |

Estelle R. Ramey, born Stella Rosemary Rubin

In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.

Man | Men |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory -- an empty bottle of gin.

Depression | Desire | Giving | Little | Men | Money | Troubles | Work | Think |