Great Throughts Treasury

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

Life | Life | Order |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I thought I paid for everything. Not like women, pay and pay and pay. There is not a reward or punishment. Just exchange of values. Something comparable to, and in return you get something else. Or work for the sake of something. Anyway after all, at least partially good pay. Much of what I was paying, like me, and I had a good time. You pay either the knowledge or experience, or risk, or money. Enjoy life is nothing like the ability to get something equivalent expended money and realize it. And to get the full price for your money you can. Our world - a solid company. Excellent as a theory. In five years, I thought, it seems to me the same stupid, like all my other superior theory.

Good | Joy | Life | Life | Money | Order | Reward | Thought | Work | World | Worth | Learn | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

Hell | Life | Life | Reason | Suicide |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

Life | Life |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.

Enough | Happy | Life | Life | Praise | Rest | Value |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

Ability | Death | Despise | Harm | Necessity | Responsibility | Talent |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Life | Life | War | Worry |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.

Life | Life |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

These two branches of our science--on the one side ontogeny or embryology, and on the other phylogeny, or the science of race-evolution--are most vitally connected. The one cannot be understood without the other.

Life | Life | Little | Value |

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 |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

Life | Life | Man | Property | Worth |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Life | Life |

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

I believe, therefore, that the best way to make contact with the essential problem is by speaking of technology: economic development in poverty-stricken areas can be fruitful only on the basis of what I have called "intermediate technology." In the end, intermediate technology will be "labor-intensive" and will lend itself to the use of small-scale establishments

Life | Life | People | Poverty |

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

It is true that all men are brothers, but it is also true that in our active personal relationships we can, in fact, be brothers to only a few of them, and we are called upon to show more brotherliness to them than we could possibly show to the whole of mankind.

Life | Life | Position | World |

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

Even an economist might well ask: what is the point of economic progress, a so-called higher standard of living, when the earth, the only earth we have, is being contaminated by substances which may cause malformations in our children or grandchildren?

Conduct | Doubt | Knowledge | Life | Life | Little | Man | Meaning | Purpose | Purpose | Will |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

If your heart vibrate looking Resist oppression then silence is a form of treason because

Beauty | Life | Life | People | Spirit | Understanding | Will | Beauty |

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 |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Revolutionaries filling the world banging for the world to not sleep weighed on the bodies of the poor.

Better | Birth | Hope | Labor | Life | Life | Time | Will |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

I do not care where and when to die as much as I'd stay home.

Death | Right |