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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Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.

Children | Education | Money | System |

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

Nature always… knows where and when to stop. Greater even than the mystery of natural growth is the mystery of the natural cessation of growth. There is measure in all natural things – in their size, speed, or violence. As a result, the system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing.

Distinguish | Economics | Means | Method | Money |

Esaias Tegnér

A glimpse of Breidablick, whose walls are light as e'en the silver on the cliff it shone; of dark blue steel its columns azure height and the big altar was one agate stone. It seemed as if the air upheld alone its dome, unless supporting spirits bore it, studded with stars Odin's spangled throne, a light inscrutable burned fiercely o'er it; in sky-blue mantles, sat the gold-crowned gods before it.

Lord |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The thought that you think, you think, which attracts to it - so you think it some more, which attracts to it - so you think it some more. In other words, when you have an expectation, you've got a dominant thought going on, and Law of Attraction is going to deliver that to you again and again and again.

Joy | Life | Life | Money | Success |

Estonian Proverbs

Who wants to teach others has to be learned himself.

Enemy | Friend | Wants |

Estonian Proverbs

When God gives a child, he also gives the clothing.

Death | Man | Money |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

Money | Thinking | Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who weds a widow with three children takes four thieves into his house.

Wants | Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who sows a wind will reap a storm.

Will |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

Desire | Money | Nature | Spirit | World |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.

Achievement | Attainment | Body | Joy | Money | Possessions | Property | Success |

Ethiopian Proverbs

One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.

Day | Time | Will | Child |

Estonian Proverbs

Who wants will get.

Teach | Wants |

Ethiopian Proverbs

A partner in the business will not put an obstacle to it.

Wants |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Rhime did not, in the fame manner as measure, figures, and metaphors, derive its origin from the first institution of languages.

Wants |

Eudora Welty

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

Life | Life | Reverence |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

HOGAN: No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.

Money | Wants | Understand |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

I hold more and more surely to the conviction that the use of masks will be discovered eventually to be the freest solution of the modern dramatist's problem as to how -- with the greatest possible dramatic clarity and economy of means -- he can express those profound hidden conflicts of the mind which the probings of psychology continue to disclose to us.

Dirty | Little | Marriage | Pain | Play | Time | Ugly | Think |

Eugen Drewermann

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Money | Learn |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

Whence comes to man the most sustainable of the pleasures of his heart, the pleasure of melancholy , this charming full of secrets , who is living his pain and s' love even in the sense of its ruin? [Where does the most enduring human enjoyments of his heart, the pleasure of melancholy, this charming full of secrets, which makes its living pain and still love the feeling of ruin?]

Love | Money | Sacrifice | Value |