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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Moira Timms

People create their own realities by what they think and believe. The new Being is destined to become the essence of boundless freedom and beauty.

Beauty | Character | Freedom | People | Think |

Ralph Waldo Trine

One need remain in hell no longer than he chooses to; and the moment he chooses not to remain longer, not all the powers in the universe can prevent his leaving it. One can rise to any heaven he himself chooses; and when he chooses so to rise, all the higher powers of the universe combine to help him heavenward.

Character | Heaven | Hell | Need | Universe |

Yechiel Michel Tukatinsky

From the perspective of the minuteness of our planet in relationship with the entire universe a person’s seeking honor is ridiculous.

Character | Honor | Relationship | Universe |

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

God | Law | Reason | Thinking | Truth | Universe | Wisdom | God |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Simplicity is the glory of expression. The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Character | Glory | Simplicity | Universe |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

Character | Miracles | Universe |

John Welwood

Life is like the ocean, forever trying to wear away our narrow self-concepts, which compromise its freedom and vastness.

Character | Freedom | Life | Life | Self |

Alan Barth

Security is never absolute... The government of a free people must take certain chances for the sake of maintaining freedom which the government of a police state avoids because it holds freedom to be of no value.

Absolute | Freedom | Government | People | Security | Wisdom | Government |

M. Beer

Man's freedom is his inner worth; His guilt alone can rob him of it.

Freedom | Guilt | Man | Wisdom | Worth |

Léon Blum, fully André Léon Blum

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

Cause | Freedom | Peace | Wisdom |