Great Throughts Treasury

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Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

The credulity of love is the most fundamental source of authority.

Authority | Love | Wisdom |

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Those who love the young best stay young longest.

Love | Wisdom |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

A religion, even if it calls itself the religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it. Fundamentally, indeed, every religion is in this same way a religion of love for all those whom it embraces; while cruelty and intolerance towards those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

Cruelty | Intolerance | Love | Religion | Wisdom | Cruelty |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Love | Men | Promise | Wisdom |

Henry Giles

Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal.

Duty | Eternal | Liberty | Love | Principles | Reverence | Right | Will | Wisdom |

Richard Fuller

It is impossible to conceive any contrast more entire and absolute than that which exists between a heart glowing with love to God, and a heart in which the love of money has cashiered all sense of God - His love, His presence, His glory; and which is no sooner relieved from the mockery of a tedious round of religious formalism than it reverts to the sanctuaries where its wealth is invested, with an intenseness of homage surpassing that of the most devout Israelite who ever, from a foreign land, turned his longing eyes toward Jerusalem.

Absolute | Contrast | Glory | God | Heart | Land | Longing | Love of money | Love | Mockery | Money | Sense | Wealth | Wisdom | God |

Jerry Gillies

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be or you.

Love | Will | Wisdom |

Zona Gale

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

Better | Good | Life | Life | Love | Poetry | Wisdom |

Paul Géraldy, pen name of Paul Lefevre

What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body, heart and mind, the responsibility of flattering, in our place, the self of which we are not very sure.

Body | Desire | Heart | Love | Mind | Responsibility | Self | Wisdom |

William Ewart Gladstone

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessing of Peace.

Love | Peace | Power | Time | Will | Wisdom | World |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

Love | Wisdom |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Genius | Love | Truth | Wisdom |

Johann Gottfried von Herder

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

Heart | Love | Wisdom |