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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Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I, wretched creature finally had to lower my flag, after a long struggle until dark with gloom and loneliness.

Distinction | Enough | Fear | Heart | Life | Life | Regard | Sincerity | Society | Society |

Emmet Fox

Never resent jealousy, it is the heights of flattery - no one is ever jealous of a fool.

Chance | Courtesy | Enemy | Error | Evil | Fighting | Harmony | Heart | Knowing | Men | Nothing | Power | Rest | Sense | Thought | Time | Truth | Old | Think | Thought |

Emma Goldman

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

Fear | Force | Life | Life | Meaning | Men | Opinion | Public | Receive | Right | Wants | Will | Woman | Work | Learn |

Emma Goldman

This perversion of the ethical values soon crystallized into the all-dominating slogan of the Communist Party: THE END JUSTIFIES ALL MEANS. Similarly in the past the Inquisition and the Jesuits adopted this motto and subordinated to it all morality. It avenged itself upon the Jesuits as it did upon the Russian Revolution. In the wake of this slogan followed lying, deceit, hypocrisy and treachery, murder, open and secret. It should be of utmost interest to students of social psychology that two movements as widely separated in time and ideas as Jesuitism and Bolshevism reached exactly similar results in the evolution of the principle that the end justifies all means. The historic parallel, almost entirely ignored so far, contains a most important lesson for all coming revolutions and for the whole future of mankind.

Beginning | Men | Patriotism | World |

Empedocles NULL

But when Strife was grown great in the limbs of the god and sprang forth to claim his prerogatives, in the fullness of the alternate time set for them by the mighty oath,….for all the limbs of the god in turn quaked.

Evil | Light | Men | Race |

Emmet Fox

All the old traditions tell us that there is more than one path to the great Goal… The shortest and easiest pathway of all is the pathway of Love. It is the one pathway that is open to all, irrespective of what their personal conditions or circumstances may be. For every person, everywhere, true attainment awaits through the yoga of Love, for yoga means union and it is our union with God that makes the attainment possible.

Fear | World |

Empedocles NULL

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

Men |

English Proverbs

A fool's tongue runs before his wit.

Men | Wise |

Emma Goldman

When a child has reached manhood, he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

Men | Order | Present | Will | Work |

Emma Goldman

The sense of justice and equality, the love of liberty and of human brotherhood — these fundamentals of the real regeneration of society — the Communist State suppressed to the point of extermination. Man's instinctive sense of equity was branded as weak sentimentality; human dignity and liberty became a bourgeois superstition; the sanctity of life, which is the very essence of social reconstruction, was condemned as unrevolutionary, almost counter-revolutionary. This fearful perversion of fundamental values bore within itself the seed of destruction.

Fear | Heaven | Humanity | Man | Mankind | Reward | Spirit | Truth | Will |

Empedocles NULL

And many a fire there burns beneath the ground. [On the volcano]

Evil | Man | Men | Mind | Nothing | Wise |

Empedocles NULL

There is no discord and no unseemly strife in his limbs.

Life | Life | Men | Order | Time |

English Proverbs

A good beginning is half the battle.

Fear | Good |

Empedocles NULL

Come now, hear how the Fire as it was separated caused the night-born shoots of men and tearful women to arise; for my tale is not off the point nor uninformed. Whole-natured forms first arose from the earth, having a portion both of water and fire. These did the fire, desirous of reaching its like, send up, showing as yet neither the charming form of the limbs, nor yet the voice and parts that are proper to men.

Cause | Conduct | Day | Honor | Madness | Men | Mortal | Right |

English Proverbs

All men can't be masters.

Men |

Emmet Fox

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

Beginning | Fear | Ideas | Life | Life | Love of money | Love | Money | Need | Public | Spirit | Learn |

English Proverbs

Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.

Men |

English Proverbs

Bad money drives out good.

Men |

English Proverbs

Bad news has wings.

Money |