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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Adlai Ewing Stevenson

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow whatever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Knowledge | Mind | Search | Value |

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Evil | Mind | Public |

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

The mind is the expression of the soul, which belongs to God and must be let alone by government.

God | Government | Mind | Soul | God |

Aeschylus NULL

The mind asleep hath clear vision.

Mind | Vision |

Adolph Hitler

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

Attention | Mind | Success | Will |

A. A. Milne, fully Alan Alexander "A. A." Milne

The third rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Happy | Majority | Mind | Thinking |

Albert Camus

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes as soon as he begins to think for himself... He rebels because he categorically refuses to submit to conditions that he considers intolerable and also because he is confusedly convinced that his position is justified, or rather, because in his own mind he thinks that he ‘has the right to...’ Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Man | Mind | Position | Rebellion | Right | Think |

Albert Camus

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Absurd | Action | Consequences | Mind | Morality |

Albert Jay Nock

The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.

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