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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Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar

Different religions are only signposts. In all religions the basic tenets are joy and compassion.

Compassion | Joy | Tenets | Wisdom |

O. Carl Simonton

Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain.

Joy | Pain | Wisdom |

Jeremy Taylor

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy; a friend shares my sorrow and makes it but a moiety, but he swells my joy and makes it double.

Friend | Joy | Man | Sorrow | Wisdom |

Igor Feodorovitch Stravinsky, or Fyodorovich

Art postulates communion, and the other artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Art | Joy | Need | Wisdom |

Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasure activity.

Aspiration | Fortune | Joy | Pleasure | Wisdom | Aspiration |

Johan August Strindberg

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

Joy | Learning | Life | Life | Pleasure | Wisdom |

Victor Weisskopf, fully Victor "Viki" Frederick Weisskopf

Science is an important part of the humanities because it is based on an essential human trait: curiosity about the how and why of our environment. We must foster wonder, joy of insight.

Curiosity | Important | Insight | Joy | Science | Wisdom | Wonder |

Simone Weil

If we find fullness of joy in the thought that God exists, we should find the same fullness in the knowledge that we ourselves do not exist for it is the same thought.

God | Joy | Knowledge | Thought | Wisdom | God | Thought |

John Yepes “Saint John of the Cross”

The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps a holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

God | Joy | Love | Pleasure | Soul | Wisdom | God |

William Wordsworth

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better for the future.

Better | Future | Life | Life | Past | Present | Will | Wisdom | Learn |

Hans Zinnser

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

Capacity | Ideas | Joy | Science | Teach | Wisdom | Learn |

William Bolitho, pen name for Charles William Ryall

The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The most important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence and it marks the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

Important | Intelligence | Life | Life | Man | Sense |