Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Chance | Enough | Knowing | Thinking | Time | World | Think |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

For thousands of years men have striven and suffered and begotten and woman have brought forth in pain. A hundred years ago, perhaps, another man sat on this spot; like you he gazed with awe and yearning in his heart at the dying light on the glaciers. Like you he was begotten of man and born of woman. He felt pain and brief joy as you do. Wash someone else? Was it not you yourself? What is this Self of yours? What was the necessary condition for making the thing conceived this time into you, just you and not someone else?

Future | Plan | Time |

Erwin Rommel, fully Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

Art | Enemy | Strength | Time | Art |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows.

Effort | Focus | Time |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

Circumstances | Famous | Father | Hunger | Important | Time | Loss | Child |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

If your desire is strong enough, it doesn't matter what your beliefs are. If you have a desire that is strong enough, that desire will be the dominant vibration, and it will over-ride any other vibration that you have.

Law | Time | Will |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Revolutionaries filling the world banging for the world to not sleep weighed on the bodies of the poor.

Better | Birth | Hope | Labor | Life | Life | Time | Will |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

The causal character of the relation which connects embryology with stem-history is due to the action of heredity and adaptation.

Man | Time |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

God knows I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is

Awe | Heart | Joy | Light | Man | Men | Pain | Self | Time | Woman |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

Why are atoms so small?... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

God | Music | Question | Science | Time | Unity | God | Old |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Man | Time | World |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

In this mighty “war of culture,” affecting as it does the whole history of the World, and in which we may well deem it an honor to take part, no better ally that Anthropogeny can, it seems to me, be brought to the assistance of struggling truth. The history of evolution is the heavy artillery in the struggle for truth.

Character | Individual | Time |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

As you think thoughts that feel good to you, you will be in harmony with who you really are.

Means | Pleasure | Practice | Time | Will |

Esther Perel

Through fantasy we repair, compensate, and transform.

Time |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Many people protest when we explain to them the power of telling the story of their finances as they want it to be rather than as it is, because they believe that they should be factual about what is happening. But if you continue to look at lackful what-is and speak of what-is, you will not find the improvement that you desire. If you want to effect substantial change in your life experience, you must think thoughts that feel different as you think them.

Fun | Time | Will |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The beast, like all of you, chooses freedom first. And if ever the physical condition becomes less than joyful, the beast, if left to himself, will re-emerge into Non-Physical.

Action | Energy | Enough | Time | Will | World |

Ethiopian Proverbs

One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.

Day | Time | Will | Child |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Even if Christ's death could have been prevented, Judas would still be a traitor.

Time |

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

Day | Need | Practice | Question | Time | Teacher |

Eugen Herrigel

You have described only too well, replied the Master, where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so, you have no choice but to call forth something yourself that ought to happen independently of you, and so long as you call it forth your hand will not open in the right way--like the hand of a child.

Danger | Life | Life | Man | Soul | Time | Danger |