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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Emil M. Cioran

Trees are massacred, houses go up - faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

Guarantee | Men | Paradox |

Emile Zola

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

Men |

Emile Zola

There's nothing like love to give courage to young people.

Men |

Emile Zola

There were so ambitious men they have flared heads, only to hear them say thank you.

Men |

Emma Goldman

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us to-day... The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.

Birth | Body | Earth | Enjoyment | Guarantee | Heart | Human nature | Individual | Liberty | Men | Mind | Nature | Observation | Order | Peace | Purpose | Purpose | Restraint | Soul | Study | Teach | Wickedness | Will | World |

Emma Goldman

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

Absurd | Effort | Era | Men | Silence |

Emma Goldman

Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

Bigotry | Economics | Future | God | Kill | Love | Man | Means | Men | Past | Position | Religion | Will | Worth | God |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Men | Object | World |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

That... which you may suppose the most potent to arrest my imagination, is actually the least, for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree—filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day, I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women—my own features—mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

Men | Object | World |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

We journey to the day, and tell each other how we sang to keep the dark away.

Age | Good | Kill | Men | Mistake | Truth |

Emmet Fox

Never resent jealousy, it is the heights of flattery - no one is ever jealous of a fool.

Chance | Courtesy | Enemy | Error | Evil | Fighting | Harmony | Heart | Knowing | Men | Nothing | Power | Rest | Sense | Thought | Time | Truth | Old | Think | Thought |

Emma Goldman

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

Fear | Force | Life | Life | Meaning | Men | Opinion | Public | Receive | Right | Wants | Will | Woman | Work | Learn |

Emma Goldman

This perversion of the ethical values soon crystallized into the all-dominating slogan of the Communist Party: THE END JUSTIFIES ALL MEANS. Similarly in the past the Inquisition and the Jesuits adopted this motto and subordinated to it all morality. It avenged itself upon the Jesuits as it did upon the Russian Revolution. In the wake of this slogan followed lying, deceit, hypocrisy and treachery, murder, open and secret. It should be of utmost interest to students of social psychology that two movements as widely separated in time and ideas as Jesuitism and Bolshevism reached exactly similar results in the evolution of the principle that the end justifies all means. The historic parallel, almost entirely ignored so far, contains a most important lesson for all coming revolutions and for the whole future of mankind.

Beginning | Men | Patriotism | World |

Empedocles NULL

But when Strife was grown great in the limbs of the god and sprang forth to claim his prerogatives, in the fullness of the alternate time set for them by the mighty oath,….for all the limbs of the god in turn quaked.

Evil | Light | Men | Race |

Empedocles NULL

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

Men |

English Proverbs

A fool's tongue runs before his wit.

Men | Wise |

Emma Goldman

When a child has reached manhood, he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

Men | Order | Present | Will | Work |

Empedocles NULL

And many a fire there burns beneath the ground. [On the volcano]

Evil | Man | Men | Mind | Nothing | Wise |

Empedocles NULL

There is no discord and no unseemly strife in his limbs.

Life | Life | Men | Order | Time |

Empedocles NULL

Come now, hear how the Fire as it was separated caused the night-born shoots of men and tearful women to arise; for my tale is not off the point nor uninformed. Whole-natured forms first arose from the earth, having a portion both of water and fire. These did the fire, desirous of reaching its like, send up, showing as yet neither the charming form of the limbs, nor yet the voice and parts that are proper to men.

Cause | Conduct | Day | Honor | Madness | Men | Mortal | Right |