Great Throughts Treasury

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Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL

The teacher of evil destroys the lore, he by his teaching destroys the design of life, he prevents the possession of Good Thought from being prized. These words of my spirit I wail unto you, O Mazda, and to the Right.

Evil | Faith | Good | Land | Mind | Order | Principles | Prosperity | Blessed |

Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL

So conscience for the sinner distorts the truth of the upright, but (his) soul is in agony at the judgment of the Chinvat Bridge, having strayed by his own deeds and tongue from the Path of Righteousness.

Body | Faith | Knowledge | Life | Life | Mankind | Power | Soul |

Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Faith |

Victor Hugo

He had been married and had had offspring. He did not know what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them the way he might have lost his handkerchief.

Beginning | Childhood | Darkness | Despair | Faith | Knowing | Man | Nothing | Soul | Time | Youth | Youth | Think |

Victor Hugo

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Faith | Nothing | Strength | Will |

Victor Hugo

A good mayor is a good thing. Are you afraid of the good you might do

Faith | Necessity | Woe |

Victor Hugo

I have only one of everything: God, king, soul, boot.

Faith | Men | Science |

Victor Hugo

We do not claim that the portrait we present here is a true one, only that it comes close.

Faith | Labor | Man | Necessity | Woe | Think |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and again, would ever be able to grasp the meaning of its suffering. Unanimously, the group replied that of course it would not; with its limited intelligence, it could not enter into the world of man, i.e., the only world in which the meaning of its suffering would be understandable. Then I pushed forward with the following question: ‘And what about man? Are you sure that the the human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos? Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man’s world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?

Belief | Faith | Future | Lying | Nothing | Loss | Crisis |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

Just consider a child who, absorbed in play, forgets himself—this is the moment to take a snapshot; when you wait until he notices that you are taking a picture, his face congeals and freezes, showing his unnatural self-consciousness rather than his natural graciousness. Why do most people have that stereotyped expression on their faces whenever they are photographed? This expression stems from their concern with the impression they are going to leave on the onlooker. It is cheese that makes them so ugly. Forgetting themselves, the photographer, and the future onlooker would make them beautiful.

Faith |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Come to me, O my Beloved Lord. Night and day, with each and every breath, I think of You. O Saints, give Him this message; I fall at Your Feet. Without You, how can I be saved?

Awareness | Brotherhood | Faith | God | Man | God | Awareness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man, who acts thus, is inevitably blessed with immortality.

Faith |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Any thought, speech or deed causing harms to other is 'sin' while anything which is beneficial for others... gives joy to others is 'virtue'.

Faith | Will |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Be kind to Nanak, O God; let the Lord's Name dwell within my mind and body.

Faith |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Haver patience; do not, in your hurry, enjoy cheap joys, fall into error and unrighteous deeds.

Faith | Will |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The man who can see is a scholar; the man who can walk is a person with experience.

Faith | Lord | Malice |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

When they are out and about, they keep Him enshrined in their hearts; returning home, the Lord of the Universe is still with them.

Faith | Will |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

When a child's growth is stunted, it causes grief; when he starts to grow normally, it causes joy, when the growth is abnormal, it causes grief again.

Energy | Faith | Life | Life | Method | Worship |

Vannevar Bush

Science, by itself, provides no panacea for individual, social, and economic ills. It can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

Faith | Knowledge | Learning | Man | Men | Mission | Will | Learn | Privilege |

Vannevar Bush

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

Authority | Belief | Duty | Faith | Men | Mission | Necessity | Science | Silence | Story | Will | World | Think |