Great Throughts Treasury

"She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you wonÂ’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten. Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?" - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

"And where is yet farther proof of the truth of the theory of descent to be found?" - Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

"In many of these languages there are numerals only for one, two, and three: no Australian language counts beyond four. Very many wild tribes can count no further than ten or twenty, whereas some very clever dogs have been made to count up to forty and even beyond sixty." - Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

"From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"If our intellectual leaders treat work as nothing but a necessary evil soon to be abolished as far as the majority is concerned, the urge to minimize it right away is hardly a surprising reaction, and the problem of motivation becomes insoluble." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"If technology is felt to be becoming more and more inhuman, we might do well to consider whether it is possible to have something better - a technology with a human face." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"Man talks of a battle with Nature, forgetting that if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"Pollution must be brought under control and mankind's population and consumption of resources must be steered towards a permanent and sustainable equilibrium." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"The effort needed to sustain a way of life which seeks to attain the optimal pattern of consumption is likely to be much smaller than the effort needed to sustain a drive for maximum consumption." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"The strength of the idea of private enterprise lies in this terrifying simplicity. It suggests that the totality of life can be reduced to one aspect—profits." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"To mention these things, no doubt, means laying oneself open to the charge of being against science, technology, and progress. Let me therefore, in conclusion, add a few words about future scientific research. Man cannot live without science and technology any more than he can live against nature." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"Democritus introduces the intellect having an argument with the senses about what is 'real'." - Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

"In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of ‘whole numbersÂ’ no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules." - Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

"Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind." - Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

"This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way" - Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

"We are, I believe, at the moment in grave danger of missing the 'path to perfection'." - Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

"If you are feeling a shortage of time or money, your best effort would be to focus upon better-feeling thoughts, and do more things that make you feel good." - Ester and Jerry Hicks

"Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self-imposed limitations - and all limitations are self-imposed - and you free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things." - Ester and Jerry Hicks

"The emotion you feel is always about the vibrational variance between where you want to be and where you are. If you're out of balance, there are only two ways to bring yourself into alignment - either raise your expectation to match your desire, or lower your desire to match your expectation." - Ester and Jerry Hicks

"What you are living is the evidence of what you are thinking and feeling, every single time." - Ester and Jerry Hicks

"Who you really are is Non-Physical Energy focused in a physical body, knowing full well that all is well and always has been, and always will be. You are here to experience the supreme pleasure of concluding new desires, and then of bringing yourself into vibrational alignment with the new desires that you've concluded, for the purpose of taking thought beyond that which it has been before." - Ester and Jerry Hicks

"Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion." - Etty Hillesum, formally Ester "Etty" Hillesum

"Modern philosophy has been created by laymen, not by churchmen, and to the ends of the natural cities of men, not to the end of the supernatural city of God." - Étienne Gilson, fully Étienne Henry Gilson

"The man who loves the higher it gets, the more it is bound, it is more loved, more like it." - Étienne Pivert de Senancour

"For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others." - Eudora Welty

"This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose." - Eugen Herrigel

"But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves," - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"It will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!" - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"DonÂ’t call me a spokesman for bisexuality. ItÂ’s like being called a spokesman for blue eyes. It doesnÂ’t mean anything. Everyone is bisexual....I donÂ’t understand the obsession with sex. Norman Mailer often sounds like the deranged commander of an American Legion post, particularly about women, whom he doesnÂ’t like very much. He has made politics out of sex." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"Everything's wrong on Wikipedia." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority)." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal