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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John Dewey

The fundamental defect in the present state of democracy is the assumption that political and economic freedom can be achieved without first freeing the mind. Freedom of mind is not something that spontaneously happens. It is not achieved by mere absence of obvious restraints. It is a product of constant unremitting nurture of right habits of observation and reflection.

Absence | Democracy | Freedom | Mind | Observation | Present | Reflection | Right | Wisdom |

John Crowne

War destroys man, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.

Body | Luxury | Man | Mankind | Mind | War | Wisdom |

Du Coeur NULL

Partiality is generally supplemented by prejudice, and is most objectionable in family government.

Family | Government | Partiality | Prejudice | Wisdom |

Tyron Edwards

Bad books are like intoxicating drinks; they furnish neither nourishment, nor medicine. Both improperly excite; the one the mind; the other by body. The desire for each increases by being fed. Both ruin; one the intellect; the other the health; and together, the soul. The safeguard against each is the same - total abstinence from all that intoxicates either body or mind.

Abstinence | Body | Books | Desire | Health | Mind | Soul | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Body | Life | Life | Luxury | Mind | Possessions | Success | Wisdom |

Tyron Edwards

Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul, the foundation and source of health and strength and peace.

Body | Health | Peace | Religion | Soul | Strength | Wisdom |

Lawrence K. Frank

It is one of the ironic and yet pathetic aspects of our competitive life that with each step up the ladder of success, the regimentation of the individual and his family becomes more intense and coercive. The goal of competitive striving is to be allowed to submit to these extractions and find fulfillment only in doing as faithfully as possible what others in one's competitive class are doing

Family | Fulfillment | Individual | Life | Life | Success | Wisdom |

François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders... It is s species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.

Family | Health | Idleness | Labor | Madness | Man | Men | Risk | Wisdom |

Henry Ford

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Observation | People | Time | Waste | Wisdom |

Michel Foucault

I believe that the political significance of the problem of sex is due to the fact that sex is located at the point of intersection of the discipline of the body and the control of the population.

Body | Control | Discipline | Wisdom |

Thomas Erskine, Lord Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

The body travels more easily than the mind, and until we have limbered up our imagination we continue to think as though we had stayed home. We have not really budged a step until we take up residence in someone else's point of view.

Body | Imagination | Mind | Wisdom | Think |

Abraham ben Jacob Gabishon

When the body gets full, the mind gets dull.

Body | Mind | Wisdom |

George Gissing, fully George Robert Gissing

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do not make it pulse more vigorously.

Beauty | Body | Man | Mind | Sound | Wisdom |

Hugo Grotius, also known as Huig de Groot, Hugo Grocio or Hugo de Groot

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together in order to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Body | Men | Order | Rights | Wisdom |

John Hall

Keep clear of personalities in conversation. Talk of things, objects, thoughts. The smallest minds occupy themselves with persons. Do not needlessly report ill of others. As far as possible, dwell on the good side of human beings. There are family boards where a constant process of depreciating, assigning motives, and cutting up character goes forward. They are not pleasant places. One who is healthy does not wish to dine at a dissecting table. There is evil enough in man, God knows. But it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible, and fragrant with gentleness and charity.

Character | Charity | Conversation | Enough | Evil | Family | Gentleness | God | Good | Man | Mission | Motives | Wisdom | Woman | God |

Thomas Haliburton, fully Thomas Chandler Haliburton, pseudonym "Sam Slick"

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

Family | Fun | Human race | Race | Wisdom |

William Harvey

Every affection of the mind that is attended with either pain or pleasure, hope or fear, is the cause of an agitation whose influence extends to the heart, and there induces change from the natural constitution, in the temperature, the pulse and the rest, which impairing all nutrition in its source and abating the powers at large, it is no wonder that various forms of incurable disease in the extremities and in the trunk are the consequence, inasmuch as in such circumstances the whole body labors under the effects of vitiated nutrition and want of native heat.

Agitation | Body | Cause | Change | Circumstances | Disease | Fear | Heart | Hope | Influence | Mind | Pain | Pleasure | Rest | Wisdom | Wonder |

Robert A. Heinlein, fully Robert Anson Heinlein, pen name for Anson MacDonald

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

Argument | Family | Right | Wisdom |

James Henry Leigh Hunt

The mind may undoubtedly affect the body; but the body also affects the mind. There is a reaction between them; and by lessening it on either side, you diminish the pain on both.

Body | Mind | Pain | Wisdom |