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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James McCosh

In the end, thought rules the world. There are times when impulses and passions are more powerful, but they soon expend themselves; while mind, acting constantly, is ever ready to drive them back and work when their energy is exhausted.

Energy | Mind | Thought | Wisdom | Work | World | Thought |

Domingo Moles

Life is a conscious space between two eternities. It is a canyon separating never from forever. It is the realm where feelings are born in both sprit and flesh. Life only gives meaning to the time a man lives. Only the living have meaning... The projection of man in his work is the meaning of life. Unless a man creates something outside himself, the meaning of his life will vanish at the instant of his death.

Death | Feelings | Life | Life | Man | Meaning | Space | Time | Will | Wisdom | Work |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man.

Age | Man | Persuasion | Wisdom | Work |

J. V. Moldenhawer

Often our work seems insignificant and unimportant when we compare ourselves with the immensity of time and the universe, but God gave us our moment on earth to be used in the best possible way.

Earth | God | Time | Universe | Wisdom | Work | God |

Persius, fully Aulus Persius Flaccus NULL

Unhappy he who does his work adjourn, and to to-morrow would the search delay: his lazy morrow ill be like to-day.

Day | Delay | Search | Wisdom | Work |

Samuel Niger, aka Shmuel Niger, pseudonymn of Samuel Charney

Everyone reads out of a work as much as he is capable of reading into it. Only in the material realm is "a receiver not a giver." Spiritually, you can't take unless you give. To apprehend God's or a man's creation, you must put in your share and become a partner in a creative work.

God | Man | Reading | Wisdom | Work |

Ayano Otani

The surest eventuality in life is death... You always have to do your best in whatever work comes your way. Only then can you express your gratitude for having been endowed with life. Only then can you rest assured of reaching paradise after death.

Death | Gratitude | Life | Life | Paradise | Rest | Wisdom | Work |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in Speech.

Good | Liberty | Practice | Speech | Wisdom | Work |

W. Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade

A man is not a slave in being compelled to work against his will, but in being compelled to work without hope and without reward.

Hope | Man | Reward | Will | Wisdom | Work |

Charles Michael Schwab

Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

Man | Wisdom | Work |

Noah benShea

All work is holy.

Wisdom | Work |

Noah benShea

There is only work and love in life, thought Jacob. If we are fortunate, we love our work. If we are wise, we are willing to work at love.

Life | Life | Love | Thought | Wisdom | Wise | Work | Thought |

Charles Michael Schwab

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Fun | Life | Life | Love | Man | Money | Wisdom | Work |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hold childhood in reverence and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Give nature time to work before you take over her tasks, lest you interfere with her method.

Childhood | Good | Hurry | Method | Nature | Reverence | Time | Wisdom | Work |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There can be no patriotism without liberty, no liberty without virtue, no virtue without citizens; create citizens, and you have everything you need; without them, you will have nothing but debased slaves, from the rulers of the State downwards. To form citizens is not the work of a day; and in order to have men it is necessary to educate them when they are children.

Children | Day | Liberty | Men | Need | Nothing | Order | Patriotism | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Wisdom | Work |

Arthur Schnitzler

The three criteria of a work of art: harmony, intensity, continuity.

Art | Harmony | Wisdom | Work |