Great Throughts Treasury

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Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron

The wise will remain serene in the face of trouble... Wisdom leads to tranquillity, gold and silver to anxiety... Tranquillity is the summit of felicity.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Gold | Tranquility | Will | Wisdom | Wise |

Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron

Wisdom leads to tranquillity, gold and silver to anxiety.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Gold | Tranquility | Wisdom |

W. Béran Wolfe

If we want to know what happiness is we must seek it, not as if it were a part of gold at the end of the rainbow, but among human beings who are living richly and fully the good life. If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double Dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar gold button that has rolled under the cupboard in his bed room. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living 24 crowded hours of the day. If you live only for yourself you are always an immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your own views and interests. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellowmen. If your ambition has the momentum of an express train at full speed, if you can no longer stop your mad rush for glory, power, or intellectual supremacy, try to divert your energies into socially useful channels before it is too late. For those who seek the larger happiness and greater effectiveness open to human beings there can be but one philosophy of life, a philosophy of constructive altruism. The truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity. The good life demands a working philosophy as an orientating map of conduct. This is the golden way of life. This is the satisfying life. This is the way to be happy though human.

Altruism | Ambition | Courage | Danger | Day | Death | Ego | Fighting | Gold | Good | Happy | Life | Life | Man | Meaning | Optimism | Philosophy | Service | Will | Writing | Ambition | Danger | Happiness |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars… or your two legs… or your hands… or your hearing? Add up what you have, and you’ll find that you wouldn’t sell it at all for all the gold in the world.

Gold | World |

Euripedes NULL

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Gold | Virtue | Virtue |

Felix Frankfurter

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

Greed | Self-interest | System |

Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm

Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.

Freedom | Greed | Love | Practice |

Gerald Heard

When love and understanding wholly replace greed and fear, then the illusion of time is conquered.

Greed | Illusion | Love | Time | Understanding |

H. G. Wells, fully Herbert George Wells

The search for divine truth is like gold washing; nothing is of any value until most has been swept away.

Gold | Nothing | Search | Truth | Value |

Jacques Cousteau, formally Hacques-Yves Cousteau, known as 'le Commandant Cousteau' or 'Captain Cousteau'

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Fault | Greed | Will | Fault |

Joachim-Ernst Berendt

The magic of listening brings us closer to the central core of the universe. To begin to comprehend the mystery of life it is not sufficient to touch and to see – we need to hear, to listen, and thus to unite heart and mind and soul. The softer the sound the more important it is that we perceive it. We have, I fear, become a deaf people, and the cries of pain of the flora and fauna around us, the very air we breathe, the suffering of our fellow human beings in our urban deserts, in parts of the globe we have subjected to war, to famine and flood through greed and selfishness, have become inaudible. The media encourages us to read, to view, to hear, but that does not mean we listen. Until we can create a still center within ourselves we will be unable to attune the “third ear” to the messages that are broadcast to us, loud and clear for the most part, but rendered futile due to our incapacity to listen.

Greed | Heart | Important | Life | Life | Listening | Magic | Mind | Mystery | Need | Pain | Sound | Suffering | Will |

John Burroughs

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Gold | Price | Self-sacrifice | Worth |

John M. Capozzi

Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise.

Gold | Need |

John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try,no hell below us, above us only sky,imagine all the people, living for today. Imagine there's no countries,it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too,imagine all the people, living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one,I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people, sharing all the world. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.

Brotherhood | Greed | Hell | Hope | Kill | Life | Life | Need | Nothing | Religion | Will | Wonder | World |

Milton Friedman, fully John Milton Friedman

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Capitalism | Greed | Organization | Will |

John L. Lewis, fully John Llewellyn Lewis

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

Greed | Neglect | Organization | Resentment |

Joseph Murphy

Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.

Gold | Life | Life | Need | Riches | Will | Riches |

Kathleen Raine

Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and small blue dragon-fly Green fern, and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future, Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves, and spins a fate Fern-traced, bird feathered, or fish-scaled.

Fate | Gold | Love | Fate |

Krishna, also Kreeshna, Krsna, Lord Krishna NULL

Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.

Gold | People | Pleasure | Praise |

Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

It is often said that the invention of terrible weapons of destruction will put an end to war. That is an error. As the means of extermination are improved, the means of reducing men who hold the state conception of life to submission can be improved to correspond. They may slaughter them by thousands, by millions, they may tear them to pieces, still they will march to war like senseless cattle. Some will want beating to make them move, others will be proud to go if they are allowed to wear a scrap of ribbon or gold lace.

Gold | Invention | Life | Life | Means | Men | Submission | War | Weapons | Will |