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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Emmet Fox

The Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself -is amenable to man's thought, and that he had dominion over it when he knows it.

Better | Bible | Faith | God | Mind | Success | Will | Wisdom | God | Bible | Think |

Emmet Fox

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Difficulty | God | Knowing | Life | Life | Metaphysics | Question | Success | Truth | Work | Wrong | Following | God |

Eric S. Raymond

And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, IÂ’ve got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.[2]

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

If you have plenty of money, want not to see but to have seen a bullfight and plan no matter whether you like it or not to leave after the first bull, buy a barrera seat so that someone who has never had enough money to sit in a barrera can make a quick rush from above and occupy your expensive seat as you go out taking your pre-conceived opinions with you.

Success | Wrong |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

Modern economics does not distinguish between renewable and non-renewable materials, as its very method is to equalize and quantify everything by means of a money price.

Behavior | Dependence | Success |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’.

Experiment | Freedom | God | Good | Man | Success | Uncertainty | God |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The thought that you think, you think, which attracts to it - so you think it some more, which attracts to it - so you think it some more. In other words, when you have an expectation, you've got a dominant thought going on, and Law of Attraction is going to deliver that to you again and again and again.

Joy | Life | Life | Money | Success |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.

Achievement | Attainment | Body | Joy | Money | Possessions | Property | Success |

Eugen Herrigel

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! he exclaimed. The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

Aptitude | Awareness | Cult | Danger | Ego | Existence | Life | Life | Present | Reason | Right | Spirit | Success | Time | Witness | Worth | Talent | Danger | Awareness | Teacher |

Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy

There is only one thing to do — take it to the country!

Incompetence | Life | Life | People | Success | System | War |

Euripedes NULL

And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.

Reputation | Success |

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

Appreciation | Cooperation | Dedication | History | Reflection | Success | Understanding | Appreciation | Friends |

Gustave Flaubert

The author in his book must be like God in his universe, everywhere present and nowhere visible.

Success |

Italian Proverbs

Saying is one thing, doing another.

Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

Italian Proverbs

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Society | Success | Society |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

At last Frodo spoke with hesitation. 'I believed that you were a friend before the letter came,' he said, 'or at least I wished to. You have frightened me several times tonight, but never in the way the servants of the Enemy would, or so I imagine. I think one of his spies would - well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

Law | Success |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him?. We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp

Innovation | Law | Life | Life | Organization | Success |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

For victory is victory, however small, nor is it?s worth only from what follows from it.

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