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 Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

Right |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Nothing | Right | Wrong | Old |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended.

Luck | Right | Luck |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

Day | Force | Reason | Rights | Will |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

Revolution | Right | Will |

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

The bigger the country, the greater is the need for internal "structure" and for a decentralized approach to development. If this need is neglected, there is no hope for the poor.

Battle | Experience | Force | Man | Nature |

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

If technology is felt to be becoming more and more inhuman, we might do well to consider whether it is possible to have something better - a technology with a human face.

Evil | Majority | Nothing | Right | Work |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

Gold | Good | Right | Thought | Think | Thought |

Ernst Toller

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

Revolution | Right |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

I do not care where and when to die as much as I'd stay home.

Death | Right |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

In many of these languages there are numerals only for one, two, and three: no Australian language counts beyond four. Very many wild tribes can count no further than ten or twenty, whereas some very clever dogs have been made to count up to forty and even beyond sixty.

Existence | Faith | Force | History | Knowledge | Necessity | Nothing | Position | Science | Work |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The task of educating and feeding youngsters, the task of educating the army, the task of distributing the lands of the former absentee landlords to those who laboured every day upon that same land without receiving its benefits, are accomplishments of social medicine.

Darkness | Individuality | Light | Little | Silence | Space |

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

The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds.

Discipline | Force | Freedom | Life | Life | Power | Problems |

Erving Goffman

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

Individual | Right | Will | Value |

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 |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

Life | Life | Right |

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

It is of little use trying to suppress terrorism if the production of deadly devices continues to be deemed a legitimate employment of man's creative powers. Nor can the fight against pollution be successful if the patterns of production and consumption continue to be of a scale, a complexity, and a degree of violence which, as is becoming more and more apparent, do not fit into the laws of the universe, to which man is just as much subject as the rest of creation.

Question | Right |

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 |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies, you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.

Individual | Power | Right | World | Wrong |

Esther Perel

We see what we want to see, what we can tolerate seeing, and our partner does the same. Neutralizing each other's complexity affords us a kind of manageable otherness. We narrow down our partner, ignoring or rejecting essential parts when they threaten the established order of our coupledom. We also reduce ourselves, jettisoning large chunks of our personalities in the name of love.