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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Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Will |

Tibetan Proverbs

Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts

Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary

There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body.

Luck | Nothing | Oblivion | Search | Luck |

Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Right |

Tibetan Proverbs

To spread the news is to multiply it.

Need |

Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

Balance |

William Shakespeare

A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain... Makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes. Henry IV, Act iv, Scene 3

Age | God | Good | Will | Wit | World | God | Old |

William Shakespeare

Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus; home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Study |

Iris Murdoch, aka Dame Jean Iris Murdoch

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

Better | Faith | God | Good | Love | Time | Will | Work | God | Afraid | Learn |

William James

First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

William James

If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.

Psychology |

William James

The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.

Art | Man | Means | Art |

William James

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Absolute | Body | Conscience | Consciousness | Education | Energy | God | Heaven | Life | Life | Meaning | Miracles | Present | Religion | Science | World | God | Think |

William James

Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.

Courage | Men | Nations | Need | Valor | Valor |

William James

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

History | Life | Life | Need | Religion | Survival |

William Law

The spirit of prayer is a pressing forth of the soul out of this earthly life, it is a stretching with all its desire after the life of God, it is a leaving, as far as it can, all its own spirit, to receive a spirit from above, to be one life, one love, one spirit with Christ in God.

Calamity | Distress | God | Good | Heart | Love | Man | Peace | Repentance | Right | Sin | Will | Calamity | God |

William Law

Through the want of a sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions, we fall into such irregularities of life as, by the ordinary means of grace, we should have power to avoid.

Comfort | Light | Man | Men | Nature | Order | People | Sensibility | World | Afraid |

William Morris

A pattern is either right or wrong.... It is no stronger than its weakest point.

Imagination | Man | Memory | Mind | Soul | Will | Wills |

William James

They conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Belief | Life | Life | Will | Words | Worth | Afraid |

William Law

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other... The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity; but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least of all deserve it.

Awakening | Desire | Force | God | Heart | Life | Life | Longing | Man | Prayer | Spirit | Thought | Time | Will | God | Thought |