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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William Gilmore Simms

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

Body | Mind | Repose | Solitude | Wisdom |

Michel Simon

War. There is no solution for it. There is never a conqueror. the winner generates such hatred that he is ultimately defeated.

War | Wisdom |

Alexis de Tocqueville, fully Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

Politics | Wisdom |

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect.

Confidence | Neglect | Sincerity | Wisdom |

Al-Jāḥiẓ, full name Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī NULL

Man indeed hates the one whom he knows, turns against the one whom he sees, opposes the one whom he resembles, and becomes observant of the faults of those with whom he mingles; the greater the love and intimacy, the greater the hatred and estrangement.

Love | Man |

Dhammapada NULL

`He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me’ – in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.

Will |

Albert Einstein

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.

Contempt | Crime | Individual | Men | People | Pride | Remorse | Wrong |

John Climacus, fully Saint John Climacus, aka John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites

As long as anger lives, she continues to be the fruitful mother of many unhappy children.

Anger | Children | Mother |

Dhammapada NULL

If you rest in the stillness like a broken gong, you have already reached heaven, for anger has left you.

Anger | Heaven | Rest |

Dalai Lama, born Tenzin Gyatso NULL

The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.

Anger | Enemy | Existence | Greed | Peace | War | Weapons |