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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Victor Hugo

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

Error | Truth |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

One should always strive for knowledge so that ignorance never touches him.

Truth |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

For the first time in my life, I was able to understand the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory."

Belief | Life | Life | Love | Man | Meaning | Poetry | Salvation | Thought | Time | Truth | Wisdom | Thought |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

During war times not only one should himself take part in it but also encourage the courageous to do so by creating awareness, zeal and enthusiasm for the war in the society.

Responsibility | Truth | Waiting | War |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

Just as the Sun is respected for providing heat and energy to the world, in the same manner you too can attain respect in this world by acquiring knowledge.

Famous | Truth |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

May there be no difference of opinion or discord in a nation. May the intellect and thoughts of people create harmony.

Truth |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

After all, man is that being who has invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who has entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Achievement | Angels | Belief | Contemplation | Life | Life | Love | Man | Meaning | Nothing | Poetry | Position | Right | Salvation | Thought | Time | Truth | Wisdom | World | Contemplation | Thought | Understand |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

One should always ensure a pure environment while making food. One should never prepare food with dirty hands. This could lead to a number of ailments and make the body weak.

Suffering | Truth |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

Humans should do charity and do service to others.

Truth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.

Truth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The disease that racks and wastes thy limbs, and the sickness in thy heart, has flown as an eagle to a far distance, overcome by my charm.

Discovery | Man | Mission | Truth | Unique | Discovery |

Yajur Veda, or Yajurveda

A pure heart is all that one needs to perform good deeds.

Man | Truth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

When birds desire to chirp, lustily desire to chirp, may my call go there, as an arrow-point upon the shaft.

Dawn | Truth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

With seven wheels does this Time ride, seven naves has he, immortality is his axle. He carries hither all these beings (worlds). Time, the first god, now hastens onward.

Mind | Truth | Understand |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Things that I could get done, I do not entrust to others; I do them myself, so that they may learn self-reliance and get experience thereby.

Truth |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.

Desire | Time | Truth | Will |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.

Art | Learning | Skill | Truth | Words | Art |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Devotion | Important | Little | Prayer | Truth |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

I think, Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.

Distrust | Truth | Understand |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

Truth | Child |