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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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Men | War | Will | Think |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a gray overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have.

Earth | Little | Man | Men |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Oh Daddy, canÂ’t you give her something to make her stop screaming? asked Nick. No. I havenÂ’t any anesthetic, his father said. But her screams are not important. I donÂ’t hear them because they are not important.

Men | Practice |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Men | Time |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.

Care | Enough | Men |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Well, I know what I have to do, so it is simple. Duty is a wonderful thing. I do not know what I should have done without duty since young Tom died. You could have painted, he told himself. Or you could have done something useful. Maybe, he thought. Duty is simpler.

Bible | Good | Men | Title | Bible | Old |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

Ontogeny is a short and quick repetition, or recapitulation, of Phylogeny, determined by the laws of Inheritance and Adaptation.

Knowledge | Men |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

Individual | Men |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

In large-scale enterprise, private ownership is a fiction for the purpose of enabling functionless owners to live parasitically on the labor of others. It is not only unjust but also an irrational element which distorts all relationships within the enterprise.

Action | Fear | Knowledge | Little | Man | Men | Will |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

We tend to think of development, not in terms of evolution, but in terms of creation.

Accident | Men | Nature | Learn |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Our universities produced lawyers and doctors for the old social system, but did not create enough agricultural extension teachers, agronomists, chemists, or physicists. In fact, we do not even have mathematicians.

Action | Battle | Death | Enemy | Men | Unity | War |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

God knows I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is

Awe | Heart | Joy | Light | Man | Men | Pain | Self | Time | Woman |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary.... These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!

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Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

Body | Consciousness | Greatness | Men | Nothing | Position | Race | System | Theories | Truth | Will | Truths |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Antithesis | Courage | Desire | Faith | Knowledge | Man | Men | Mind | Nature | Purpose | Purpose | Reality | Religion | Soul | Thinking | World |

Ernst Toller

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

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E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

It might be said that energy is for the mechanical world what consciousness is for the human world. If energy fails, everything fails.

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