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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Victor Hugo

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

Democracy | Greatness | Nothing | Rights |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

A person who performs good Karma (deeds) is always held in high esteem.

Civilization | Culture | Deeds | Greatness | Language | Deeds | Happiness |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

A person who is respectful towards his land, civilization and language, attains greatness and he acquires all the happiness of life. His deeds should be such that makes the motherland, the culture and language proud.

Friend | Greatness |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

Sometimes the frustrated will to meaning is vicariously compensated for by a will to power, including the most primitive form of the will to power, the will to money.

Death | Greatness | Little | Sound | Story | Woman |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny. No situation repeats itself, and each situation calls for a different response.

Accomplishment | Challenge | Chance | Circumstances | Failure | Greatness | Life | Life | Majority | Men | Opportunity | People | Words | Failure | Think |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

This fire has confused the schemes that are in your mind; it shall blow you from your home, blow you away from everywhere.

Perfection | Practice |

Václav Havel

A modern philosopher once said: Only a God can save us now.

Action | Awareness | Greatness | Important | Awareness |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

The perfection of a pendulum is not to go fast, but to be resolved.

Perfection |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

The philosophy has its modes such as clothes, music and architecture.

Perfection |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

It is our heart to determine the rank of our interests, and our reason to drive.

Perfection | Right | Wit |

Tryon Edwards

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Good | Life | Life | Mankind | Perfection |

Tryon Edwards

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Beauty | Genius | Greatness | Beauty |

Turkish Proverbs

Beauty passes, wisdom remains. (Used to make a point that wisdom matters more than physical beauty.)

Perfection |

Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.

The secret I learned early on from my father was to run scared and never think I had it made. I never felt I was completely adequate to the job and always ran scared. The fundamental for our success was running scared.

Attention | Enthusiasm | Important | Means | Perfection |

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

Advice | Body | Genius | Haste | Important | Life | Life | Literature | Man | Nothing | Perfection | Play | Pleasure | Popularity | Reason | Recreation | Wonder | Work | Think |

Thucydides NULL

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Action | Day | Earth | Famous | Freedom | Glory | Greatness | Honor | Knowing | Knowledge | Love | Men | Mortal | Praise | Sense | Speech | Story | Will | Happiness |

Thurgood Marshall

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Ability | Compassion | Greatness |

William Shakespeare

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

Greatness | Sound | Think |

William Shakespeare

But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; his words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate, his tears pure messengers sent from his heart, his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. Two Gentlemen from Verona, Act ii, Scene 7

Man | Perfection |

William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. Twelfth Night, Act v, Scene 1

Art | Father | Perfection | Art |