Great Throughts Treasury

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Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

Children | Kill | Men | Rights |

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 |

Etty Hillesum, formally Ester "Etty" Hillesum

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

Fear | People | Think |

Estonian Proverbs

When God gives a child, he also gives the clothing.

Death | Man | Money |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

Money | Thinking | Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who handles water is bound to get wet.

Fear | Will |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

Desire | Money | Nature | Spirit | World |

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 |

Ethiopian Proverbs

The cattle is as good as the pasture in which it grazes.

Fear |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Language was a long time without having any other words than the names which had been given to sensible objects, such as these, tree, fruit, water, fire, and others, which they had more frequent occasion to mention.

Distinguish | Fear | Ideas | Metaphysics | Reason |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

HOGAN: No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.

Money | Wants | Understand |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see but a few feet ahead. I didn’t meet a soul. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. Out beyond the harbor, where the road runs along the beach, I even lost the feeling of being on land. The fog and the sea seemed part of each other. It was like walking on the bottom of the sea. As if I had drowned long ago. As if I was the ghost belonging to the fog, and the fog was the ghost of the sea. It felt damned peaceful to be nothing more than a ghost within a ghost.

Men | Poverty | Child |

Étienne Gilson, fully Étienne Henry Gilson

There are rational proofs by which we can know with certitude that God exists; but the certitude of faith, which is based on the infallibility of the word of God, is infinitely more reliable than all knowledge acquired by natural reason alone, no matter how evident it may be. In matters of revelation, error is absolutely impossible because the source of the knowledge of faith is God Himself, who is the Truth.

God | Men | God |

Eugen Drewermann

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Money | Learn |

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Fear | Love | Mankind | Question | Old |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

And yet it is not always in our power to revive the perceptions we have felt. On some occasions the most we can do is by recalling to mind their names, to recollect some of the circumstances atr tending them, and an abstract idea of perception; an idea which we are capable of framing every instant, because we never think without being conscious of some perception which it depends on ourselves, to render genera).

Happy | Ideas | Imagination | Men | Reason |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

Whence comes to man the most sustainable of the pleasures of his heart, the pleasure of melancholy , this charming full of secrets , who is living his pain and s' love even in the sense of its ruin? [Where does the most enduring human enjoyments of his heart, the pleasure of melancholy, this charming full of secrets, which makes its living pain and still love the feeling of ruin?]

Love | Money | Sacrifice | Value |

Eugene Peterson

Why are we put on the spot of being God’s defender. We are expected to explain God to his disappointed clients. We’re thrust into the role of a clerk at Wal-Mart’s customer service desk – the complaints department of humanity.

Money | Sympathy |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Men |