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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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

Age | Counsel | Day | Feelings | God | Government | Heart | Ideals | Justice | Knowledge | Mercy | Need | Opportunity | Politics | Right | Search | Time | Will | Government | Counsel | God | Understand |

Thucydides NULL

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten

Discussion | Justice | Necessity | Question |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Action | Justice | Life | Life | Object | Peace | Principles | Purpose | Purpose | Self | Will | World |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

Business | Disparagement | Error | Experience | History | Hope | Influence | Justice | Love | Mankind | Nations | People | Service | Will | World | Business |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

Duty | Justice | Liberty | Light | Love | Men | Right | Thought | Will | World | Thought |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Justice | Will |

Thucydides NULL

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Administration | Example | Excellence | Government | Justice | Law | Man | Obscurity | Obscurity | Poverty | Public | Reward | Rivalry | Excellence | Government |

Thucydides NULL

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

Equality | Justice | Power |

Thurgood Marshall

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Justice |

Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary

A psychedelic experience is a journey to new realms of consciousness. The scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are the transcendence of verbal concepts, of space-time dimensions, and of the ego or identity. Such experiences of enlarged consciousness can occur in a variety of ways: sensory deprivation, yoga exercises, disciplined meditation, religious or aesthetic ecstasies, or spontaneously. Most recently they have become available to anyone through the ingestion of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT, etc. Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

Justice | Man | Pain |

Thucydides NULL

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labor from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eyewitnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other. The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but I shall be content if it is judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it. My history has been composed to be an everlasting possession, not the showpiece of an hour.

Justice | Will |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

Justice | Peace |

William Shakespeare

A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Hamlet, Act i, Scene 5

Change | Justice | Man | World |

William Shakespeare

As fresh as morning dew distill'd on flowers.

Events | Justice | Life | Life | Man | Mourning | Order |

William Shakespeare

As 'tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home.

Justice |

Charles Kingsley

Let us ask ourselves seriously and honestly, “What do I believe after all? What sort of manner of man am I after all? What sort of show should I make after all, if the people round me knew my heart and all my secret thoughts? What sort of show, then, do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?”

Nothing | World | Worth | Value |

Dalia Mogahed

Muslim women do not regard Islam as an obstacle to their progress; indeed, many may see it as a crucial component of that progress.

Appreciation | Cause | Diversity | Justice | Law | Question | Tradition | Understanding | Appreciation |

William Godwin

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Justice | Life | Life | Magic | Mother | Truth | Worth |

William Godwin

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Cause | Good | Justice | Love | Happiness |

William Godwin

Once annihilate the quackery of government, and the most homebred understanding might be strong enough to detect the artifices of the state juggler that would mislead him.

Better | Conduct | Consideration | Family | Father | Improvement | Justice | Justify | Life | Life | Lying | Magic | Man | Sense | Truth | Understanding | Will | Work | Worth | Vice |