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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Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

World |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

In this respect, the idea of private enterprise fits exactly into the idea of The Market, which, in an earlier chapter, I called "the institutionalization of individualism and non-responsibility."

Dignity | Land | Money | People | Question | Regard | Will |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

To talk about the future is useful only if it leads to action now.

Fault | Method | Money | Price | Self-deception | Thought | Fault | Thought |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.

Children | Education | Money | System |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

Nature always… knows where and when to stop. Greater even than the mystery of natural growth is the mystery of the natural cessation of growth. There is measure in all natural things – in their size, speed, or violence. As a result, the system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing.

Distinguish | Economics | Means | Method | Money |

Erving Goffman

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Individual | Right | Will | Value |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The thought that you think, you think, which attracts to it - so you think it some more, which attracts to it - so you think it some more. In other words, when you have an expectation, you've got a dominant thought going on, and Law of Attraction is going to deliver that to you again and again and again.

Joy | Life | Life | Money | Success |

Estonian Proverbs

When God gives a child, he also gives the clothing.

Death | Man | Money |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

Money | Thinking | Will |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

Desire | Money | Nature | Spirit | World |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.

Achievement | Attainment | Body | Joy | Money | Possessions | Property | Success |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

HOGAN: No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.

Money | Wants | Understand |

Eugen Drewermann

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Money | Learn |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

Whence comes to man the most sustainable of the pleasures of his heart, the pleasure of melancholy , this charming full of secrets , who is living his pain and s' love even in the sense of its ruin? [Where does the most enduring human enjoyments of his heart, the pleasure of melancholy, this charming full of secrets, which makes its living pain and still love the feeling of ruin?]

Love | Money | Sacrifice | Value |

Eugene Peterson

Why are we put on the spot of being God’s defender. We are expected to explain God to his disappointed clients. We’re thrust into the role of a clerk at Wal-Mart’s customer service desk – the complaints department of humanity.

Money | Sympathy |

Eugen Drewermann

If you want to change people by talking about God, then there is only one way: instead of teaching God, you must live God. Because: “teaching” God is unthinkable in any other way than the way you would teach love or poetry. You teach love only through love, poetry only through writing poetry, faith in God only through a contagious way of trusting.

Money |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

The happiness is the happiness that seems complete, and that s' announcement as permanent for and say.

Good | Harmony | Love | Object |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.

Enough | Money | People |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Money | Vice |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

Money | Pleasure |