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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Lutz Kleveman

A bold policy to reduce the addiction to oil would be the most powerful weapon to win the epic struggle against terrorism. In the short term, this means saving energy through more efficient technologies, necessary anyway to slow the greenhouse effect and global warming.

Addiction | Energy | Global | Means | Policy | Struggle | Terrorism |

Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Energy | People |

Allan Bloom, fully Allan David Bloom

Education is the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

Art | Education | Energy | Soul |

Alexis Carrel

Prayer is not only worship; it is also an invisible emanation of man’s worshipping spirit - the most powerful form of energy that one can generate. The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. It results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships. If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered.

Body | Energy | Habit | Influence | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Prayer | Spirit | Understanding | Will | Worship |

Arthur Schopenhauer

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, an time and energy limited.

Books | Energy | Good | Life | Life | Man | Time | Wants |

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself.

Energy | Man |

Charles Caleb Colton

We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

Earnestness | Energy | God |

Charles Caleb Colton

We should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves; and we should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God.

Earnestness | Energy | God |

Blanche DeVries Bernard

The first and last lesson of Yoga is the attitude of mind and heart. The aim of Yoga is to unite mind, body, spirit. The reward of yoga practice is the conversion of physical energy into mind power. The practices give a definite sense of control and raise the levels of consciousness awareness. These practices are not to be done competitively, to exhibit to one's friends, to expand the ego. While each of us, according to our temperament, must find the best mental approach, it should be one of self-surrender. Quiet, but joyful. Concentrated. Never strained. Outer control of the body is a means of regulating the inner functioning.

Awareness | Body | Consciousness | Control | Ego | Energy | Heart | Lesson | Means | Mind | Power | Practice | Quiet | Reward | Self | Sense | Spirit | Surrender |

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

Cost | Difficulty | Energy | Enough | Labor | Little | Nothing | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Vice |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

Hate burns up more energy than anything else, more than hard work, illness or justifiable worry. So when hatred is entering our hearts, let us just put it out, make room for pleasant thoughts instead, save our precious God-given energy for something worthy of it.

Energy | God | Hate | Work | Worry |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

Do you remember the things you worried about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

Energy | Right | Waste | Work |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

Energy | Happy | Thought | Happiness | Thought |

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Love… is the only truly real and lasting experience in life. It is the opposite of fear, the essence of relationships, the core of creativity, the grace of power, an intricate part of who we are. It is the source of happiness, the energy that connects us and that lives within us… It is elusive... We are afraid that we will never have it, that if we find it, we will lose it or take it for granted, fearing it will not last.

Creativity | Energy | Experience | Fear | Grace | Life | Life | Love | Power | Will | Afraid |

Georg Hegel, fully Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I am free... when my existence depends upon myself. This self-contained existence of spirit is none other than self-consciousness, consciousness of one’s own being. Two things must be distinguished in consciousness; first, the fact that I know; secondly, what I know. In self consciousness these are merged in one; for spirit knows itself. It involves an appreciation of its own nature, as also an energy enabling it to realize itself; to make itself actually that which it is potentially.

Appreciation | Consciousness | Energy | Existence | Nature | Self | Spirit | Appreciation |

Gary Zukav

Every intention sets energy into motion, whether you are conscious of it or not. You create in each moment.

Energy | Intention |

Fritjof Capra

The quantum field is seen as the fundamental physical entity; a continuous medium which is present everywhere in space. Particles are merely local condensations of the field; concentrations of energy which come and go, thereby losing their individual character and dissolving into the underlying field.

Character | Energy | Individual | Present | Space |

Harry S. Truman

The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas.

Energy | Force | Ideas | Old |

Horace Mann

Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purpose, whether of good or of evil.

Custom | Difficulty | Energy | Evil | Good | Mind | Philosophy | Poetry | Purpose | Purpose |