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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Paul Tillich, fully Paul Johannes Tillich

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Doubt | Faith | Meaning | Question |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Existence | Man | Object | Question |

Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL

The art of medicine is a question of timeliness.

Art | Question | Art |

Paul Tillich, fully Paul Johannes Tillich

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Existence | Meaning | Means | Question | Receive |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater, and causing a panic… The question in every case is whether the words used are in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

Circumstances | Danger | Free speech | Man | Nature | Panic | Present | Question | Right | Speech | Will | Words | Danger |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

Enough | Life | Life | Question | Worth |

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “How?” But it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “Why?”

Question | Science |

Rainer Maria Rilke, full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke

All spaciousness, as in life - also the inner - is in the last analysis a question of proportion.

Life | Life | Question |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Happy | Looks | Man | Question | Success | Work |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Happy | Looks | Man | Question | Success | Work |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

War is on its last legs; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only how soon?

Barbarism | Civilization | Peace | Question | War |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

Question | Suicide |

Ralph Washington Sockman

Our love of God is tested by the question of whether we seek him or his gifts.

God | Love | Question | God |

Rollo May, fully Rollo Reese May

There remains a chasm between truth and reality. And the crucial question which confronts us in psychology and other aspects of the science of man is precisely this chasm between what is abstractly true and what is existentially real for the given living person.

Man | Psychology | Question | Reality | Science | Truth |

Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron

A wise man's question is half the answer... Inquiry is man's finest quality.

Inquiry | Man | Question | Wise |

Susan B. Anthony, fully Susan Brownell Anthony

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

Question |

Talmud or The Talmud NULL

When man appears before the Throne of Judgment, the first question he is asked is not: “Have you believed in God? Or “Have you prayed and observed the ritual?” He is asked: “Have you dealt honorably and faithfully in all your dealings with your fellow man?”

God | Judgment | Man | Question |