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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Samuel Richardson

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

Freedom | Little | Love | Wisdom |

Jean-François Regnard

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

Hate | Love | Reason | Wisdom |

Propertius, fully Sextus Propertius NULL

Perish the man who can love lightly.

Love | Man | Wisdom |

Publius Syrus

Love begins but does not end at will... Love cannot be wrested from one, but may slip away... The wound of love is cured by the one who causes it... Love begets worry in the hour of leisure... Compliment, not command, makes love sweet.

Leisure | Love | Will | Wisdom | Worry |

Theodor Reik

Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Love | Wisdom | Work |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

Good | Love | Men | Wisdom | Wrong |

Milton R. Sapirstein

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Children | Day | Love | Wisdom | Woman |

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.

Enjoyment | Good | Gratitude | Joy | Love | Soul | Wisdom |

William Shenstone

The proper means of increasing the love we bear of our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Love | Means | Time | Wisdom |

Beverly Rubik

[Paraphrase from “Brain and Mind” article] “Local” healing reflects information from subtle bioenergy fields. By contrast, healing that appears non-local in space and time may be mediated by “information associated with conscious intention”... In electromagnetic healing... the living human organism contains many highly sensitive natural oscillators that join to form a collective “biofield.” This field is “a collective property of the organism and cannot be reduced to biomolecular events.” In this case, information is transmitted by external fields of similar frequency, with healing occurring through a “tuning” effect... “Information is about relationship and exists only in relationship.” Therefore, information grounded in love - “the highest-quality relationship” - may produce healing by overcoming information originated from the more mechanical levels of physical organization... “For science and medicine to embrace life’s full capacity and the full human potential we need to go beyond mechanical concepts that were developed for machines.”

Capacity | Contrast | Events | Intention | Life | Life | Love | Machines | Mind | Need | Organization | Property | Relationship | Science | Space | Time | Wisdom |

Paul E. Scherer, fully Paul Ehrman Scherer

It has always seemed to me a sad incongruity the way we represent the figure of Justice... Neither the love nor the justice of God is blindfolded.

God | Justice | Love | Wisdom | God |

Nabil Sawalha

Energy is never created or destroyed. When one thing dies, life is that energy, the soul, that is transformed into another form... I believe everything’s a mess and our job is to create a form of harmony, a mixture of beauty and love. The more man gives love, the more he grows, the more love he has to give.

Beauty | Energy | Harmony | Life | Life | Love | Man | Soul | Wisdom | Beauty |

Count Carlo Sforza

The security of nations is like happiness in love; a happy miracle which it is necessary to create anew every day.

Day | Happy | Love | Nations | Security | Wisdom | Happiness |

Noah benShea

There is only work and love in life, thought Jacob. If we are fortunate, we love our work. If we are wise, we are willing to work at love.

Life | Life | Love | Thought | Wisdom | Wise | Work | Thought |

Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Egotism erects its center in itself: love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing public, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view of a martyr’s crown - indifferent whether the reward is tin this life or in the next.

Aims | Despot | Enjoyment | Gratitude | Life | Life | Love | Public | Reward | Solitude | Truth | Unity | Wisdom | Following |