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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Silvio Antoniano

Let human prudence say what it likes and reason as it pleases, it is impossible to produce true temporal peace and tranquillity by things repugnant or opposed to the peace and happiness of eternity.

Eternity | Peace | Prudence | Prudence | Reason | Tranquility | Happiness |

Charles Woodruff Yost

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

Common Sense | Man | Reason | Sense | Theology | Wisdom |

Julian Baggini

One reason why the unexamined life can still be worth living is that it can be a life full of love.

Life | Life | Love | Reason | Worth |

E. B. White, fully Elwyn Brooks White

Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: it presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place which is strange, remote.

Reason | Self | Self-sufficiency | Superiority | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Cause | Reason | Soul | Strength |

Peter Abelard, Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailard; French: Pierre Abélard

Whosoever grows wrathful for any reason against his sufferings has therein departed from the way of the just, because he may not doubt that these things have happened to him by divine dispensation.

Doubt | Reason |

William Blake

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare. My business is to create.

Business | Man | Reason | System | Will | Business |

Julius Seelye Bixler

Religion is devoted and loyal commitment to the best that reason and insight can discover. The liberal understands what loyalty means as the authoritarian never can.

Commitment | Insight | Loyalty | Loyalty | Means | Reason | Religion |

Nicolas Chamfort,fully Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort, also spelled Nicholas

Man in the present state of society appears to me to be ore corrupted by his reason than his passions.

Man | Present | Reason | Society | Society |

Albert Carré

The attraction of one creature for another, even when condemned by reason for its passionate origin, is always worthy of respect, because it reveals to us something of the order of creation.

Order | Reason | Respect |

George Brantl

Reason will find God, but reason will find, too, the need to transcend reason, the promise of more than reason can offer.

God | Need | Promise | Reason | Will |

Leroy Brownlow

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Silence |

Dionysus NULL

The universal and the transcendent Cause of all things is neither without life, nor without reason and intelligence; nor is he a body, nor has he form or shape, quality, quantity or weight; nor has he any localized, visible or tangible existence… He suffers no change, corruption, division, privation or flux; none of these things can either be identified with or attributed to him.

Body | Cause | Change | Corruption | Existence | Intelligence | Life | Life | Reason |