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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Earle Birney, fully Earle Alfred Birney

Love rests on the preservation of our species; art is our instinctive instrument for the preservation of the individual, of the unique man, woman and child, and the means of evolution of us all into something able and worthy of survival on the living earth.

Art | Earth | Evolution | Individual | Love | Man | Means | Survival | Unique | Woman | Art |

Woodrew Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

Louis K. Anspacher, fully Louis Kannan Anspacher

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Dependence | Man | Marriage | Obligation | Woman |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'what does a woman want?'

Question | Research | Soul | Woman |

Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

Abuse | Better | Humanity | Man |

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a.k.a. Charlotte Anna (nee Perkins), Charlotte Perkins Stetson

It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating; but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed, and restrained will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it. The woman is narrowed by the home, and the man is narrowed by the woman.

Man | Will | Woman |

Golda Meir, originally named Goldie Mabovitch, later Goldie Myerson

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Better | Man | Woman |

P. W. Martin

Promiscuity, possessiveness, misuse of sex for purposes of power, are all highly disintegrative.

Power | Promiscuity |

George Jean Nathan

Art is the sex of imagination.

Art | Imagination |

Jean Mouroux

If the union of man and woman is the fruit of a love that is given in purity, generosity and fidelity, then the body itself is spiritualized in the service of a love that ennobles it, and, with God’s blessing, sanctifies.

Body | Fidelity | Generosity | God | Love | Man | Purity | Service | Woman |

Zen Proverbs and Thoughts

A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening the fish when she falls into the water.

Good | Men | Woman |

Vittorio de Sica

Moral indignation is in most cases 2 percent moral, 48 percent indignation and 50 percent envy.

Envy | Indignation |

William Swing, fully William Edwin Swing

Where there is an ongoing relationship of caring. Where there is a sense of humor. Where there is a sense of mutual mercy. Where there is a sense that God has given sex to you… there is nothing livelier. But when it is merchandised as a commodity for instant gratification, there is nothing deadlier than sex.

God | Humor | Mercy | Nothing | Relationship | Sense | God |