Great Throughts Treasury

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Harold Willis Dodds

Be sure to find a place for intellectual and cultural interests outside your daily occupation. It is necessary that you do so if this business of living is not to turn to dust and ashes in your mouth. Moreover, do not overlook the claims of religion as the explanation of an otherwise unintelligible world. It is not the fast tempo of modern life that kills but the boredom, a lack of strong interest and failure to grow that destroy. It is the feeling that nothing is worth while that makes men ill and unhappy.

Business | Destroy | Failure | Life | Life | Men | Nothing | Occupation | Religion | Wisdom | World | Worth | Failure | Business |

Albert Einstein

It is a nationalism whose aim is not power but dignity and health. If we did not have to live among intolerant, narrow-minded and violent people, I should be the first to throw over all nationalism in favor of universal humanity.

Dignity | Health | Humanity | People | Power | Wisdom |

Henry Fielding

One hour's sleep before midnight, is worth two after.

Wisdom | Worth |

John Florio

One man is worth a hundred & a hundred is not worth one.

Man | Wisdom | Worth |

M. Stanton Evans, fully Medford Stanton Evans

Great discoveries or ideas have one thing in common. Before they are achieved they are considered incredible and not worth the effort deemed necessary to make them real. After they are achieved, it is incredible that we should be without them.

Effort | Ideas | Wisdom | Worth |

Euripedes NULL

His worth shines forth the brightest who in hope always confides; the abject soul despairs.

Hope | Soul | Wisdom | Worth |

Stefania Follini

I believe in the dignity of being and, even more so, of becoming... Death may not be an end but only a passage, a dimensional leap. And what if, once free of the slavery of three and four dimensions, once released from space and time, we were to discover unimaginable realities beyond our poor five senses?

Death | Dignity | Slavery | Space | Time | Wisdom |

Benjamin Franklin

One day is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. What I am to be, I am now becoming.

Day | Tomorrow | Wisdom | Worth |

Edwin Osgood Grover

The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.

Dignity | Labor | Wisdom |

Moses Harvey

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only as far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

Dignity | Earth | Man | Reverence | Science | Spirit | Truth | Wisdom |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Experience | Insight | Life | Life | Wisdom | Worth |

Victor Hugo

A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity and can belabour that.

Dignity | Wisdom |

David Hume

Look around this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children.

Care | Children | Discernment | Little | Nature | Nothing | Universe | Wisdom | Worth |

Jack Holland

Character must stand behind and back up everything - the sermon, the poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without it.

Character | Play | Wisdom | Worth |

Rufus Cecil Holman

Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.

Determination | Genius | Man | Object | Wisdom | Worth |

Abraham Joshua Heschel

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

God | Wisdom |

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help you create the fact.

Belief | Life | Life | Will | Wisdom | Worth |