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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Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man.

Abundance | Body | Conversation | Eternal | Experience | Life | Life | Means | Meditation | Money | Need | People | Reading | Spirit | Time | World | Think | Understand |

Emile Zola

Yes, that's your idea, you all, the French workers unearth a treasure, for only then eat it in a corner of selfishness and laziness. You scream beautiful against the rich, you lack the courage to make the money to the poor fortune sends you ... You will never be worthy of happiness, as you will have something to you, and your hatred of bourgeois will only be your rabid bourgeois need for them.

Love | Money |

Emmanuel Lévinas , originally Emanuelis Lévinas

The solitude of the subject results from its relationship with the existing over which it is master. This mastery over existing is the power of beginning, of starting out from itself, starting out from itself neither to act nor to think, but to be.

Events | Good | Kindness | Little | Man | Organization | Politics | Utopia |

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

Bad news has wings.

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English Proverbs

To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames).

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Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory -- an empty bottle of gin.

Depression | Desire | Giving | Little | Men | Money | Troubles | Work | Think |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

It was as if we were closing the door on the years of struggle. It wasn't fun anymore.”

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Ernest Callenbach

So the youngsters have a high level of physical activity throughout their school years. School groups often go on expeditions: itÂ’s common to see six-year-olds, with heavy backpacks, trudging along with older kids on hikes which Â… may last four or five days, and in quite forbidding country. As they move on into higher levels of school Â… much of the childrenÂ’s time is allotted to training in fishing and hunting and survival skills, at the expense of basic educational skills. They are forced to learn not only the basic techniques but also how to improvise ecologically acceptable equipment in the wild: hooks, snares, bows, arrows, and so on. Â… The experiences of the children are closely tied in with studies of plants, animals, and landscape.

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Ernest Becker

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Belief | Danger | Man | Money | Protest | Sense | Society | Society | Danger |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Change | Politics | Will | Work |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

If you have to go away,' she said, 'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything? ...

Enough | Money | Plan | Plenty |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

Criticism | Lord | Money | Think |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship. It was shaded by tall coconut palms that were bent by the trade wind and on the ocean side you could walk out of the door and down the bluff across the white sand and into the Gulf Stream. The water of the Stream was usually a dark blue when you looked out at it when there was no wind. But when you walked out into it there was just the green light of the water over that floury white sand and you could see the shadow of any big fish a long time before he could ever come in close to the beach. It was a safe and fine place to bathe in the day but it was no place to swim at night. At night the sharks came in close to the beach, hunting at the edge of the Stream, and from the upper porch of the house on quiet nights you could hear the splashing of the fish they hunted and if you went down to the beach you could see the phosphorescent wakes they made in the water. At night the sharks had no fear and everything else feared them. But in the day they stayed out away from the clear white sand and if they did come in you could see their shadows a long way away.

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Better | Control | Money |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Ability | Good | Knowledge | Life | Life | Money | Nothing | Price | Reward | Thought | Work | World | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

Books | Boys | Government | Hope | Man | Politics | Will | Government |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I thought I paid for everything. Not like women, pay and pay and pay. There is not a reward or punishment. Just exchange of values. Something comparable to, and in return you get something else. Or work for the sake of something. Anyway after all, at least partially good pay. Much of what I was paying, like me, and I had a good time. You pay either the knowledge or experience, or risk, or money. Enjoy life is nothing like the ability to get something equivalent expended money and realize it. And to get the full price for your money you can. Our world - a solid company. Excellent as a theory. In five years, I thought, it seems to me the same stupid, like all my other superior theory.

Good | Joy | Life | Life | Money | Order | Reward | Thought | Work | World | Worth | Learn | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

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