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

Ester and Jerry Hicks

If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows.

Effort | Focus | Time |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Effort | Science |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

We see that man entirely resembles the higher mammals, and most of all the apes, in embryonic development as well as in anatomic structure. And if we seek to understand this ontogenetic agreement in the light of the biogenetic law, we find that it proves clearly and necessarily the descent of man from a series of other mammals, and proximately from the primates.

Church | Education | Existence | Important | Influence | Need | Order | Public |

Erving Goffman

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

Culture | Order | Relationship | Self | Will |

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

An expansion of man's ability to bring forth secondary products is useless unless preceded by an expansion of his ability to win primary products from the earth; for man is not a producer but only a converter, and for every job of conversion he needs primary products.

Effort | Existence | Experience | Simplicity | Technology |

Erving Goffman

And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.

Order | Purpose | Purpose | Will |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.

Change | Ignominy | Inevitable | Order | People | Protest | System |

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

The effort needed to sustain a way of life which seeks to attain the optimal pattern of consumption is likely to be much smaller than the effort needed to sustain a drive for maximum consumption.

Effort | Labor | Machines | Means | Nothing | People |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The task of educating and feeding youngsters, the task of educating the army, the task of distributing the lands of the former absentee landlords to those who laboured every day upon that same land without receiving its benefits, are accomplishments of social medicine.

Darkness | Individuality | Light | Little | Silence | Space |

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

It is not a question of choosing between "modern growth" and "traditional stagnation." It is a question of finding the right path of development, the Middle Way between materialist heedlessness and traditionalist immobilityÂ…

Effort | Important |

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

The essence of educationÂ…is the transmission of values, but values do not help us to pick our way through life unless they have become our own, a part, so to say, of our mental make-up. This means that they are more than mere formulae or dogmatic assertions: that we think and feel with them, that they are the very instruments through which we look at, interpret, and experience the world.

Effort | Life | Life |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.

Important | Life | Life | Order | Study |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Feel appreciation for those who provide examples of Well-Being. How would you know that prosperity was possible if there wasn't some evidence of prosperity around you? It's all part of this contrast that helps you to sharpen your desire.

Need | Order | Rights | Will | Think |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal system. We are revolutionaries. We convict from a revolutionary passion.

Obligation | Order | Loss |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men — how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?

Man | Need | Order | Society | Society | Approval |

Esther Perel

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. Maybe he can love her, but it's clearly much harder for him to desire her. There's no tension.

Intelligence | Lust | Need | Order | Space |

Esther Perel

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

Order |

Esther Perel

In order to bring lust home, we need to re-create the distance that we worked so hard to bridge. Erotic intelligence is about creating distance, then bringing that space to life.

Order |

Estonian Proverbs

The cat who snoops around will feed his kitten.

Silence |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Music must naturally have been criticized in proportion as it improved, especially if its progress was considerable and subitaneous: for then it differs most from the sounds to which our ear is accustomed. But if we begin to be used to it, then it pleases, and it is prejudice any longer to oppose it.

Circumstances | Order | Power | Present |