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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William Henry Beveridge

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Glory | Government | Man | Object | Peace | War | Government | Happiness |

John Blofeld, fully John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld

The world is full of paradox. For example, [in Buddhism] though no notion of a creator is entertained, great stress is laid upon the need for faith and piety. By faith is meant not trust in a benevolent diety avid for love, praise and obedience, but conviction that beyond the seeming reality misreported by our senses which is inherently unsatisfactory, lies a mystery which, when intuitively unsatisfactory, lies a mystery which, when intuitively perceived, will give our lives undreamed-of meaning and endow the most insignificant object with holiness and beauty.

Beauty | Example | Faith | Love | Meaning | Mystery | Need | Obedience | Object | Paradox | Piety | Praise | Reality | Trust | Will | World |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Art | Glory | Light | Simplicity | Wisdom | Art |

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies. Excessive wealth is neither glory nor happiness.

Glory | Power | Wants | Wealth | Wisdom |

Dwight Bradley

It is a man listening through a tornado for the Still Small Voice… a soul standing in awe before the mystery of the Universe… a hungry heart seeking for love… Time flowing into Eternity… IT is a man climbing the altar stairs to God.

Awe | Eternity | God | Heart | Listening | Love | Man | Mystery | Soul | Time | Universe |

Phillips Brooks

All the mystery which surrounds life and pervades life is really one mystery. It is God. Called by His name, taken up into His being, it is filled with graciousness. It is not longer cold and hard; it is all warm and soft and palpitating. It is love. And of this personal mystery of love – of God – it is supremely true that only by reverence, only by the hiding of the eyes, can He be seen.

God | Life | Life | Love | Mystery | Reverence | God |

Omar Bradley, fully Omar Nelson Bradley

We have too many men of science, and too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical midgets. We know more about war than we know of peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Conscience | God | Men | Mystery | Peace | Power | Science | War | Wisdom | World |

Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

The glory of human nature lies in our seeming capacity to exercise conscious control of our own destiny.

Capacity | Control | Destiny | Glory | Human nature | Nature |

James J. Daly

God’s love for us is a mystery and a joy, balanced by the mystery and sorrow of our coldness toward Him.

God | Joy | Love | Mystery | Sorrow |

Hugh Dinwiddy

If we ask what literature is about, we have to answer that it is about the mystery of the human heart and its passage through time.

Heart | Literature | Mystery | Time |

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their primitive forms are accessible to our minds – it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitutes true religiosity; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

Art | Beauty | Existence | Experience | Fear | Good | Knowledge | Man | Mystery | Reason | Religion | Science | Sense | Wonder | Art |

R. W. Dixon, fully Richard Watson Dixon

THERE is a soul above the soul of each, A mightier soul, which yet to each belongs: There is a sound made of all human speech, And numerous as the concourse of all songs: And in that soul lives each, in each that soul, Though all the ages are its lifetime vast; Each soul that dies, in its most sacred whole Receiveth life that shall forever last. And thus forever with a wider span Humanity o’erarches time and death; Man can elect the universal man, And live in life that ends not with his breath: And gather glory that increase still Till Time his glass with Death’s last dust shall fill.

Ends | Glory | Life | Life | Sacred | Soul | Sound | Time |

L. Francis Edmunds

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Art | Experience | Fear | Good | Mystery | Religion | Science | Wonder | Art |

Albert Einstein

I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

Eternity | Existence | Knowledge | Life | Life | Mystery | Nature | Reason | Sense | Understand |

Joseph Conrad

No illumination can sweep all mystery out of the world. After the departed darkness the shadows remain.

Darkness | Mystery | World |

Albert Einstein

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Eternal | Mystery | World |

Walter Farrell

Perhaps some day, the modern man will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of man, it is his home.

Day | Man | Mind | Mystery | Prison | Will | Learn |