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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Bons (Leonidovich) Pasternak

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Life | Life | Wisdom |

Theodore Parker

The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.

Earnestness | Life | Life | Wisdom |

George Dennison Prentice

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

Possessions | Property | Wisdom | Value |

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden

The greatest humbug in the world is the idea that money can make a man happy. I never had any satisfaction with mine until I began to do good with it.

Good | Happy | Man | Money | Wisdom | World |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use owe make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

Eternal | Happy | Opportunity | Punishment | Repentance | Sentiment | Wisdom |

Beverly Rubik

No scientific concept can ever represent the richness of nature or the complexity of its full creative potential. Thus, [information] is only another facet of the diamond... The most that a new model, metaphor or concept in science can give us is the gift of new questions.

Model | Nature | Science | Wisdom |

Lawrence Sterne, alternatively Laurence Sterne

“It is not safe to be alone,” nor can all which the cold-hearted, pedant stuns our ears with upon the subject ever give one answer of satisfaction to the mind; in the midst of the loudest vauntings of philosophy, nature will have her yearnings for society and friendship. A good heart wants something to be kind to; and the best parts of our blood, and the purest of our spirits suffer most under the destitution.

Good | Heart | Mind | Nature | Philosophy | Safe | Society | Wants | Will | Wisdom | Yearnings | Society |

Jeremy Taylor

A good wife is heaven’s last, best gift to man - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faithful counselors, her bosom the softest pillow of his care.

Care | Day | Good | Heaven | Industry | Innocence | Man | Music | Wealth | Wife | Wisdom |

Herman Lincoln Wayland

To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart, which God did not design them to fill, this is covetousness.

Design | God | Good | Heart | Riches | Wisdom | Riches | God | Value |

George Washington Truett

There is a vast difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration is a concession; liberty is a right; toleration is a matter of expediency; liberty is a matter of principle; toleration is a grant of man; liberty is a gift of God.

God | Liberty | Man | Right | Toleration | Wisdom |

Abdul Baha, or ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, born `Abbás Effendí

God has given man the eye of investigation by which he may see and recognize truth. He has endowed man with ears that he may hear the message of reality, and conferred upon him the gift of reason by which he may discover things for himself. Man is not intended to see through the eyes of another, hear through another’s ears nor comprehend with another’s brain. Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.

God | Individual | Man | Plan | Power | Reality | Reason | Responsibility | Truth |

Bishops' Pastoral Letter "Economic Justice For All" NULL

From the patristic period to the present, the Church has affirmed that misuse of the world’s resources or appropriation of them by a minority of the world’s population betrays the gift of creation since “whatever belongs to God belongs to all.”

Church | God | Present | World | God |

René Bazin, fully René François Nicolas Marie Bazin

There is no need to go searching for a remedy for the evils of the time. The remedy already exists - it is the gift of one’s self to those who have fallen so low that even hope fails them. Open wide your heart.

Heart | Hope | Need | Self | Time |