Great Throughts Treasury

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Thucydides NULL

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Administration | Example | Excellence | Government | Justice | Law | Man | Obscurity | Obscurity | Poverty | Public | Reward | Rivalry | Excellence | Government |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

This war, in its inception was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war.

Equality | Memory | Peace | Right |

Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary

Essentially, there’s a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.

Better | Money | Religion |

Hugh Blair

He who goes no further than bare justice, stops at the beginning of virtue.

Important | Order | Right | Spirit | Truth |

Hugh Blair

Such is the infatuation of self-love, that, though in the general doctrine of the vanity of the world all men agree, yet almost every one flatters himself that his own case is it to be an exception from the common rule.

Good | Sentiment | Simplicity | Virtue | Virtue | Vice |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.

Money | War |

Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

Little | Money | Murder | Murder | Old |

Tom Hopkins

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

Effort | Money |

William Shakespeare

Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.

Appetite | Father | Good | Money | Pardon |

William Shakespeare

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. Henry VI

Borrowing | Money | Sense | Will |

William James

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

Individual | Will | Work | World |

William Godwin

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Example | Order | Society | Society |

William James

I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.

Human nature | Nature | Psychology |

William Godwin

Once annihilate the quackery of government, and the most homebred understanding might be strong enough to detect the artifices of the state juggler that would mislead him.

Better | Conduct | Consideration | Family | Father | Improvement | Justice | Justify | Life | Life | Lying | Magic | Man | Sense | Truth | Understanding | Will | Work | Worth | Vice |

William James

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.

Conduct | Day | Feelings | Ideas | Indispensable | Life | Life | Phenomena | Religion | Theories | Thought | Thought |

William Godwin

What... can be more shameless than for society to make an example of those whom she has goaded to the breach of order, instead of amending her own institutions which, by straining order into tyranny, produced the mischief?

Conduct | Education | Man | Respect | Thinking | Will | Respect |

William Godwin

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Improvement | Method | Public |

William James

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Doctrine | Ideals | Meaning | People | Philosophy | Respect | Sound | Respect |

William Morris

A fearful thing stood at the cloister's end and eyed him for a while, then 'gan to wend adown the cloisters, and began again that rattling, and the moan like fiends in pain. And as it came on towards him, with its teeth the body of a slain goat did it tear, the blood whereof in its hot jaws did seethe, and on its tongue he saw the smoking hair; then his heart sank, and standing trembling there, throughout his mind wild thoughts and fearful ran: "some fiend she was," he said, "the bane of man." yet he abode her still, although his blood curdled within him: the thing dropped the goat, and creeping on, came close to where he stood, and raised its head to him and wrinkled throat. Then he cried out and wildly at her smote, shutting his eyes, and turned and from the place ran swiftly, with a white and ghastly face.

Antiquity | Opposition | Thought | Truth | Thought |