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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Bushman from Kalahari NULL

There is a dream dreaming of us.

Wisdom |

Andrew Carnegie

Upon the sacredness of property civilization depends - the right of the laborer. There is very little success where there is little laughter.

Civilization | Laughter | Little | Property | Right | Success | Wisdom |

Irwin Edman

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. Not what the citizens... do when they are obliged to do... but what they do when they can do anything by choice, is the criterion of a people's life.

Choice | Civilization | Leisure | Life | Life | People | Wisdom |

Ann Faraday

A dream is incorrectly interpreted if the interpretation leaves the dreamer unmoved and disappointed. Dreams come to expand, not to diminish us.

Dreams | Wisdom |

Brendan Francis Behan

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Man | Success | Wisdom |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Emotions | Property | Reason | Wisdom |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

The dream is the royal road to the unconscious.

Wisdom |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

The dream is the guardian of the sleep, not its disturber.

Wisdom |

Jascha Heifetz

Music is for the betterment and enrichment of the individual, just as education and reading are. When people come together to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken its longest stride forward since the beginning of time. Music is something to live with always, and children should be taught to regard it as a close and inalienable friend.

Beginning | Children | Civilization | Education | Friend | Individual | Music | People | Play | Reading | Regard | Time | Will | Wisdom |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

Boldness | Genius | Magic | Power | Wisdom |

Robert H. Goddard, fully Robert Hutchings Goddard

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Hope | Reality | Tomorrow | Wisdom |

John Hall

Culture is good, genius is brilliant, civilization is a blessing, education is a great privilege; but we may be educated villains. The thing that we want most of all is the precious gift of the Holy Ghost.

Civilization | Culture | Education | Genius | Good | Wisdom |

Robert Heilbroner, fully Robert Louis Heilbroner

The civilization malaise, in a word, reflects the inability of a civilization directed to material improvement - higher incomes, better diets, miracles of medicine, triumphs of applied physics and chemistry - to satisfy the human spirit.

Better | Civilization | Improvement | Miracles | Spirit | Wisdom |

Jamake Highwater

Art is a staple of mankind - never a by-product of elitism. So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sing of life when every other aspect of civilization fails... Like hunger and sex, it is a disposition of the human cell - a marvelous fiction of the brain which recreates itself as something as mysterious as mind. Art is consistent with every aspect of every day in the life of every people.

Art | Civilization | Day | Hunger | Life | Life | Mankind | Mind | People | Wisdom | Art |