Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL

Life’s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.

Change | Life | Life | Spirit | World |

Albert Schweitzer

The highest proof of the Spirit is love. Love is the eternal thing which men can already on earth possess as it really is.

Earth | Eternal | Love | Men | Spirit |

Albert Schweitzer

The meaning and purpose of the world remain to a large extent inexplicable. But one thing is clear: the purpose of all events is spiritual. The purpose of existence is that we human beings, all nations and the whole of humanity, should constantly progress toward perfection. If we do this, our finite spirit will be in harmony with the infinite.

Events | Existence | Harmony | Humanity | Meaning | Nations | Perfection | Progress | Purpose | Purpose | Spirit | Will | World |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Age | Spirit |

Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

Every man recognizes within himself a free and rational spirit, independent of his body. This spirit is what we call God.

Body | God | Man | Spirit |

Ralph Waldo Trine

In the degree, however, that you come into a vital realization of your oneness with the Infinite Spirit of Life, whence all life in individual form has come and is continually coming, and in the degree that through this realization you open yourself to its divine inflow, you set into operation forces that will sooner or later bring even the physical body into a state of abounding health and strength. For to realize that this Infinite Spirit of Life can from its very nature admit of no disease, and to realize that this, then, is the life in you, by realizing your oneness with it, you can so open yourself to its more abundant entrance that the diseased bodily conditions - effects - will respond to the influences of its all-perfect power, this either quickly or more tardily, depending entirely on yourself.

Body | Disease | Health | Individual | Life | Life | Nature | Oneness | Power | Spirit | Strength | Will |

Algernon Swinburne, fully Algernon Charles Swinburne

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Body | God | Spirit | God |

Katha Upanishad

The Self, the immortal Spirit, resides in the heart of all beings, who makes himself free from selfish desires and the craving of the senses. He beholds the greatness of the Spirit through the tranquility of the mind.

Greatness | Heart | Mind | Self | Spirit |

Katha Upanishad

There is one Ruler, the Spirit that is in all things, who transforms his own form into many. Only the wise who see him in their souls attain the joy eternal.

Eternal | Joy | Spirit | Wise |

Ralph Waldo Trine

Many will receive great help, and many will be entirely healed by a practice somewhat after the following nature: Wit a mind at peace, and with a heart going out in love to all, go into the quiet of your own interior self, holding the thought - I am one with the Infinite Spirit of Life, the life of my life. I then as spirit, I a spiritual being, can in my own real nature admit of no disease. I now open my body, in w2hich disease has obtained a foothold, I open it fully to the inflowing tide of this Infinite Life, and it now, even now, is pouring in and coursing through my body, and the healing process is going on. Realize this so fully that you begin to feel a quickening and a warming glow imparted by the life forces to the body. Believe the healing process is going on. Believe it, and hold continually to it. Many people greatly desire a certain thing but expect something else. They have greater faith in the power of evil than in the power of good, and hence they remain ill.

Body | Desire | Disease | Evil | Faith | Good | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Mind | Nature | Peace | People | Power | Practice | Quiet | Receive | Self | Spirit | Thought | Will | Wit | Following | Thought |

United Nations NULL

Article 1 – All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Brotherhood | Conscience | Dignity | Reason | Rights | Spirit |

Richard P. Taub

Often communities that are the most cohesive are also hostile and fearful of outsiders. Community spirit says, “Take care of your own.” The ethical challenge is to make people see that the world is their community.

Care | Challenge | People | Spirit | World |

Jeremy Taylor

A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man.

Longing | Man | Spirit |

David Bohm, fully David Joseph Bohm

What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.

Ability | Meaning | Spirit |

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.

Knowledge | Poetry | Science | Spirit |

Franz Werfel, fully Franz Viktor Werfel

Skeptic always rhymes with septic; the spirit died of intellectual poisoning.

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