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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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A single grateful thought toward Heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Heaven | Prayer | Thought | Thought |

Barrett McGurn

The world’s inability to achieve a unity of thought and to end spiritual divisions is the real reason society is so deeply unhappy, so poor in ideas and enthusiasm, and so lacking in shared spiritual concepts which are its own inner joy, nobility and strength.

Enthusiasm | Ideas | Joy | Nobility | Reason | Society | Strength | Thought | Unity | World | Society | Thought |

John Locke

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Men | Thought | Thought |

Vincent McNabb

Inspiration presupposes revelation. Inspiration may be called the guardian of revelation.

Inspiration | Revelation |

Ferdinand Lundberg

The dependence upon corporate advertising of the mass media – newspapers, magazines, radio and television – makes them editorially subservient, without in any way being prompted, to points of view known or thought to be favored by the big property owners… The willing subservience shows itself most generally, apart from specific acts of omission or commission, in an easy blandness on the part of the mass media toward serious social problems.

Advertising | Dependence | Problems | Property | Television | Thought | Thought |

Jacques Maritain

We are bound together by a more primitive and fundamental unity than any unity of thought and doctrine; we all have the same human nature and, considered in their extra-mental reality, the same primordial tendencies.

Doctrine | Human nature | Nature | Reality | Thought | Unity | Thought |

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Thought | Time | Will | Thought |

Iris Murdoch, aka Dame Jean Iris Murdoch

It was so important to think quiet loving thought about people in idle moments, especially perhaps about the dead, who being substanceless so desperately need our thoughts.

Important | Need | People | Quiet | Thought | Think | Thought |

Joseph Murphy

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Law | Life | Life | Nature | Need | Reflection | Thinking | Thought | World | Thought |

Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman

Our beliefs serve myriad purposes: They help us to organize the world in meaningful ways… They can also connect us with the transcendent dimensions of experience, and give us inspiration and hope, essential tools for confronting those moments of confusion and doubt that are so often part of life.

Doubt | Experience | Hope | Inspiration | Life | Life | World |

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, fully Sir or Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

The world is not an illusion; it is not nothingness, for it is willed by God and therefore is real… The reality of the world is not in itself but it is in the thought and being of the Creator. It is what God thought and willed it to be before it was.

God | Illusion | Reality | Thought | World | God | Thought |

Erwin Rommel, fully Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel

In a moment of extreme danger things can be done which have previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Danger | Extreme | Ideas | Mortal | Thought | Danger | Thought |

Leon Roth

If Jewish thought had never existed the world would have been without Christianity and Islam.

Thought | World | Thought |

Zalman Shneour

After my death, my thought will still smile at every mystery from which the cover has been ripped.

Death | Mystery | Smile | Thought | Will | Thought |

Baird T. Spalding

Children are happy because they live life abundantly. They put no limitations upon life whatever. The moment we put limitation upon life we cease to life abundantly. There is not a limiting condition in life. Life could not limit itself. It could not be kept away except through your own attitude of thought toward it.

Children | Happy | Life | Life | Thought | Thought |

Thiruvalluvar NULL

Those who pretend to know what they don’t, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.

Thought | Will | Thought |