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

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

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

Life | Life | Strength |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.

Day | People |

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

There is nothing in the experience of the last twenty-five years to suggest that modern technology, as we know it, can really help us to alleviate world poverty, not to mention the problem of unemployment…we had better fact the question of technology - what does it do and that should it do? Can we develop a technology which really helps us to solve our problems – a technology with a human face?

People |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

We are, I believe, at the moment in grave danger of missing the 'path to perfection'.

Ability | Consciousness | Ego | Knowledge | Man | Nothing |

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

There exists a modern trend towards total quantification at the expense of the appreciation of qualitative differences; for private enterprise is not concerned with what it produces but only with what it gains from production.

Argument | Distinguish | Ends | Important | Society | Society |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

Conditions are admittedly such that we can always manage to make doing each concrete individual case without the two different aspects leading to different expectations as to the result of certain experiments. We cannot, however, manage to make do with such old, familiar, and seemingly indispensable terms as "real" or "only possible"; we are never in a position to say what really is or what really happens, but we can only say what will be observed in any concrete individual case. Will we have to be permanently satisfied with this...? On principle, yes. On principle, there is nothing new in the postulate that in the end exact science should aim at nothing more than the description of what can really be observed. The question is only whether from now on we shall have to refrain from tying description to a clear hypothesis about the real nature of the world. There are many who wish to pronounce such abdication even today. But I believe that this means making things a little too easy for oneself.

Knowledge | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Research | Science | Space |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

'You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.'

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.

Danger | Wife | Danger |

Esaias Tegnér

A glimpse of Breidablick, whose walls are light as e'en the silver on the cliff it shone; of dark blue steel its columns azure height and the big altar was one agate stone. It seemed as if the air upheld alone its dome, unless supporting spirits bore it, studded with stars Odin's spangled throne, a light inscrutable burned fiercely o'er it; in sky-blue mantles, sat the gold-crowned gods before it.

Lord |

Etty Hillesum, formally Ester "Etty" Hillesum

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

Will |

Estonian Proverbs

They are not all men who wear trousers.

Estonian Proverbs

Who is a piece of stick in youth will be a block of wood in old age.

Man | Will |

Ethiopian Proverbs

The person who grew up without correction will find his mouth slipping instead of his foot.

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The child is vibrationally receiving your fears, your beliefs, even without your spoken word. If you want to do that which is of greatest value for your child, give thought only to that which you want, and your child will receive only those wanted thoughts.

Day | Reason | Thinking | Thought | Child | Parent | Thought |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.

Esther Perel

When people become fused-when two become one-connection can no longer happen. There is no one to connect with. Thus separateness is a precondition for connection: this is the essential paradox of intimacy and sex.

Diversity |

Etty Hillesum, formally Ester "Etty" Hillesum

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

Peace | Will |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

There is a Life Stream that flows to you, and this is a Stream of clarity, a Stream of wellness, a Stream of abundance - and in any moment, you are allowing it or not. What someone else does with the Stream, or not, does not have anything to do with how much of it will be left for you.

Emotions | Good | Guidance | Hope | Right | Thinking | Guidance | Happiness |

Ethiopian Proverbs

O, sheep if I do not eat you, you will eat me, said the hyena.

Dawn | Will |

Esther Perel

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

Sense | Wonder |