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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John Tyndall

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Existence | Wisdom |

Simone Weil

Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.

Belief | Existence | Love | Wisdom |

Lynn White, Jr., fully Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Christianity bears a huge burden of guilt... We shall continue to have a worsening ecological crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Existence | Guilt | Man | Nature | Reason | Wisdom | Crisis |

Simone Weil

To love our neighbors as ourselves does not mean that we should love all people equally, for I do not have an equal love for all the modes of existence of myself. Nor does it mean that we should never make them suffer, for I do not refuse to make myself suffer. But we should have with each person the relationship of one conception of the universe to another conception of the universe, and not to a part of it.

Existence | Love | People | Relationship | Universe | Wisdom |

Philip Berrigan

History tells us that the pendulum of time is sweeping to extremes of subjectivism, to cults of selfishness and savage irresponsibility. We must bring it back to balance by taking up the burdens of mankind as our own, with an entirely new vision and confidence. And we must do this perhaps as a condition for continued existence itself.

Balance | Confidence | Existence | History | Mankind | Selfishness | Time | Vision |

Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali

The meaning of death is not the annihilation of the spirit, but its separation from the body, and that the resurrection and day of assembly do not mean a return to a new existence after annihilation, but the bestowal of a new form or frame to the spirit.

Body | Day | Death | Existence | Meaning | Spirit |

Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis

All organizations depend on the existence of shared meanings and interpretations of reality, which facilitate coordinated action.

Action | Existence | Reality |

Arthur J. Zuckerman

All of human existence is a pilgrimage toward a better world.

Better | Existence | Wisdom | World |