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 Morris

I have the utmost respect for them. It was formed at the time of great violence and danger, particularly for African-American lawyers.

Art | Destroy | Energy | Giving | Hope | Impulse | Labor | Work | Worth | Art |

William Morris

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

Art | Education | Freedom | Art |

Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams

There is another theory that this has already happened .

Art | Business | Time | Business | Art |

François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

Unhappiness |

Duke Ellington, fully Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2 - Never forget rule number 1.

Freedom | Good | Ideals | Music | People |

Hakuin, fully Hakuin Akaku NULL

Those who testify to the truth of the nature of the Self, Have found it by reflecting within themselves.

Freedom | Practice | Will |

Egon Friedell, born Egon Friedmann

God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

Freedom | Words |

Albert Einstein

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the actions of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a supernatural Being.

Achievement | Beauty | Conduct | Good | Harmony | Important | Thought | Beauty | Old | Thought |

Elias Canetti

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

Freedom |

Elihu Root

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

Control | Freedom | Value |

Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.

Fear | Freedom |

William Shakespeare

ROMEO: Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace! Thou talk'st of nothing. Mercutio: True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy, which is as thin of substance as the air and more inconstant than the wind, who wooes even now the frozen bosom of the north, and, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, turning his face to the dew-dropping south. BENVOLIO: This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves; supper is done, and we shall come too late.

Love |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this earth to do?

Day | Freedom | Grace | Heart | Intention | Life | Life | Love | Nothing | Past | Relationship | Resolution | Rest | Suffering | Time | Forgive |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

People | Search | Will |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The best protection any woman can have . . . is courage.

Apathy | Injustice | Injustice | Protest |

Emil M. Cioran

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

Freedom |

Emil M. Cioran

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Freedom |

Emil M. Cioran

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Freedom | Man |