Great Throughts Treasury

"Forbearance, compassion and incorruptible virtue are the three pillars of a happy life. Only such a life can be called civilized; the rest is barbarian existence." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

"Gain is deposited in my right hand, victory in my left. Let me become a conqueror of cattle, horses, wealth, and gold." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

"The Divine Guru has opened his eyes. Doubt has been dispelled; my service has been successful." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

"The heavens have stood, the earth has stood, all creatures have stood. The mountains have stood upon their foundation, the horses in the stable I have caused to stand." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

"It has not dawned upon most of us that we do not need some new thing so much as some old things that would be new if anybody tried them." - Vance Havner

"Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counselor." - William Shakespeare

"The legal system doesn't have parental rights for robots." - Cynthia Breazeal

"Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas" - William James

"O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim." - William James

"The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, He can surely be no gentleman. His menial services are needed in the dust of our human trials, even more than his dignity is needed in the empyrean." - William James

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

"There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it." - Kautilya, aka Chanakya or Vishnu Gupta NULL

"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off." - Emil M. Cioran

"Not to be obliged, like so many others, to choose between the insipid and the atrocious." - Emil M. Cioran

"Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!" - Emile Zola

"There is no need to be unhappy. There is no need to be sad. There is no need to be disappointed, or oppressed, or aggrieved. There is no need for illness or failure or discouragement. There is no necessity for anything but success, good health, prosperity, and an abounding interest and joy in life." - Emmet Fox

"I was blown up while we were eating cheese." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"The point is that the real strength of the theory of private enterprise lies in this ruthless simplification, which fits so admirably also into the mental patterns created by the phenomenal successes of science." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"Anyone can lead a prayer-life -- that is, the sort of reasonable devotional life to which each is called by God. This only involves making a suitable rule and making up your mind to keep it however boring this may be." - Evelyn Underhill