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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Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

It is rascally to steal a purse, daring to steal a million, and proof of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

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Blame | Character | Daring | Greatness | Guilt |

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Arthur Schnitzler

The roads to freedom do not run through the lands out yonder, but rather through our inner selves.

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Character | Freedom |

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Alan William Smolowe

People can only exhibit freedom in proportion to their comprehension of existence and grander realities.

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Character | Existence | Freedom | People |

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Moira Timms

People create their own realities by what they think and believe. The new Being is destined to become the essence of boundless freedom and beauty.

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Beauty | Character | Freedom | People | Think |

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John Welwood

Life is like the ocean, forever trying to wear away our narrow self-concepts, which compromise its freedom and vastness.

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Character | Freedom | Life | Life | Self |

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Alan Barth

Security is never absolute... The government of a free people must take certain chances for the sake of maintaining freedom which the government of a police state avoids because it holds freedom to be of no value.

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Absolute | Freedom | Government | People | Security | Wisdom | Government |

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M. Beer

Man's freedom is his inner worth; His guilt alone can rob him of it.

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Freedom | Guilt | Man | Wisdom | Worth |

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Léon Blum, fully André Léon Blum

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

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Cause | Freedom | Peace | Wisdom |

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Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

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Discipline | Freedom | Wisdom |

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