Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Johann Gottfried Seume
German Author
"Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind."
"Man ought always to have something which he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will appear to him tiresome and void."
"Any religion which says that mankind's primary - almost only - hope lies in another life, can be presumed to be a hoax in this one."
"Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. "
"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. "