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

Tauri NULL

The body is only a vehicle for a life form, and a temporary one at that.

Body | Life | Life | Wisdom |

Symeon the New Theologian, fully Saint Symeon the New Theologian NULL

When a man walks into the sea up to his knees or waist, he can see the water all around him. But when he dives into the water, he can no longer see anything outside, and he knows only that his whole body is in the water. This is what happens to those who plunge into the vision of God.

Body | God | Man | Vision | Wisdom |

Lord Edward Thurlow, First Baron

Did you expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked?

Body | Conscience | Soul | Wisdom |

Lord Edward Thurlow, First Baron

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

Body | Justice | Soul | Wisdom |

Paul Valéry, fully Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry

The body has its end which it does not know; the mind its means of which it is unaware.

Body | Means | Mind | Wisdom |

Greta Woodrew, Pseud. for Greta Andron Smolowe

The body is a servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind. There is a mind/body connection that is powerful. As a healer, I am convinced disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sick thoughts express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear can kill a man. People who live in fear of disease are most likely the very people who get the disease. Conversely, if you would improve your body, guard your mind.

Body | Circumstances | Disease | Fear | Health | Kill | Man | Mind | People | Thought | Wisdom |

Harry Wolfson, fully Harry Austryn Wolfson

We often mistake a desire of the body for a yearning of the soul.

Body | Desire | Mistake | Soul | Wisdom |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, and I have said that the body is not more than the soul, and nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, and whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud, and I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth, and to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times, and there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero, and there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe, and I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God, for I who am curious about each am not curious about God, (No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.) I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself. Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, in the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and everyone is sign'd by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Better | Body | God | Learning | Man | Men | Nothing | Object | Peace | Self | Soul | Sympathy | Will | Wisdom | Following | God | Understand |

Carol Adrienne

To strengthen your intuitive ability, you need to become more sensitive to body signals such as stiff necks (which usually indicates your are locked into a power struggle and/or feel overwhelmed by too much to do), headaches, stomachaches, or sleeplessness… Intuition seems to come unbidden from external events… Slowing down and doing less is great for increasing your intuition.

Ability | Body | Events | Intuition | Need | Power | Struggle |

Ludwig van Beethoven

What is to reach the heart must come from above, if it does not come thence, it will be nothing but notes - body without spirit.

Body | Heart | Nothing | Spirit | Will |

Edward Young

The body charms because the soul is seen.

Body | Soul | Wisdom |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Body | Sacred | Wisdom |