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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David M. Levy

If we know as much about mental health as we do about physical health, an epidemic of hate would be considered as dangerous as an epidemic of typhoid.

Hate | Health | Wisdom |

Abraham Isaac Kook

It is our right to hate an evil man for his actions, but because his deepest self is the image of God, it is our duty to honor him with love.

Duty | Evil | God | Hate | Honor | Love | Man | Right | Self | Wisdom |

Maurice Maeterlinck, fully Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

Waiting | Wisdom |

André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog

Some truths between husband and wife must be spoken with sweetness. Wounded vanity is fatal to love. It makes one hate the person who inflicted the wound. In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care.

Care | Conversation | Hate | Husband | Love | Wife | Wisdom | Truths |

James Russell Lowell

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love is the true atheism.

Atheism | Faith | Hate | Love | Truth | Wisdom |

Metastasio, aka Pietro Petastasio, pseudonymn for Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi NULL

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons.

Error | Judgment | Mankind | Wisdom | Wonder |

Metastasio, aka Pietro Petastasio, pseudonymn for Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi NULL

O, how full of error is the judgment of mankind. They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons. They call it fortune when they know not the cause, and thus worship their own ignorance changed into a deity.

Cause | Error | Fortune | Ignorance | Judgment | Mankind | Wisdom | Wonder | Worship |

Christopher Morley, fully Christopher Darlington Morley

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in the darkest hiding-place, your own heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

God | Heart | Men | Wisdom | Wonder |

Thomas Merton

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war.

Hate | People | Soul | War | Wisdom | Think |

Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti NULL

Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

Evolution | Experience | Hate | Justice | Men | Reconciliation | Revolution | Salvation | Wisdom |

Samuel Rutherford

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.

God | Heart | Lord | Wisdom | Wonder | God | Child |

William Sansom

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.

Evil | Good | Wisdom | Wonder | World |

Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

Hate | Indigestion | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

Francis Wayland

That the truths of the Bible have the power of awakening an intense moral feeling in every human being; that they make bad men good, and send a pulse of healthful feeling through all the domestic, civil, and social relations; that they teach men to love right, and hate wrong, and seek each other's welfare as children of a common parent; that they control the baleful passions of the heart, and thus make men proficient in self-government; and finally that they teach man to aspire after conformity to a being of infinite holiness, and fill him with hopes more purifying, exalted, and suited to his nature than any other book the world has ever known - these are facts as incontrovertible as the laws of philosophy, or the demonstrations of mathematics.

Awakening | Bible | Children | Conformity | Control | Good | Government | Hate | Heart | Love | Man | Mathematics | Men | Nature | Philosophy | Power | Right | Self | Teach | Wisdom | World | Wrong | Bible | Truths |