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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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Events | Obligation | Presumption |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

Age | Children | Courage | Old age | Old |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Children | Man |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Ability | Day | Good | Life | Life | Nothing | People | Thinking | Truth | Will | Work | Writing |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

Children | Enough | Good | Men | People | Will |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Ability | Good | Knowledge | Life | Life | Money | Nothing | Price | Reward | Thought | Work | World | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

Ability | Death | Despise | Harm | Necessity | Responsibility | Talent |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Children | Present | Society | World | Society |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

When people ask for educationÂ… I think what they are really looking for is ideas that would make the world, and their own lives, intelligible to them. When a thing is intelligible you have a sense of participation; when a thing is unintelligible you have a sense of estrangement.

Chance | Children | Courage | Promise | Trouble |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Ability | Man |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.

Children | Education | Money | System |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

Even today, we are generally told that gigantic organizations are inescapably necessary; but when we look closely we can notice that as soon as great size has been created there is often a strenuous attempt to attain smallness within bigness.

Cause | Children | Earth |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

We are, I believe, at the moment in grave danger of missing the 'path to perfection'.

Ability | Consciousness | Ego | Knowledge | Man | Nothing |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

Children | Kill | Men | Rights |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

Socialists should insist on using the nationalized industries not simply to out-capitalize the capitalists—an attempt in which they may or may not succeed—but to evolve a more democratic and dignified system of industrial administration, a more humane employment of machinery, and a more intelligent utilization of the fruits of human ingenuity and effort.

Ability | Courage | Growth | Man |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Most people have put anything that earns money in the category of the things that I HAVE to do. And that is why the money often comes so hard.

Children | Language | People | Talking | Universe | Think |

Estonian Proverbs

Who whisks himself on a Saturday will be punished by God.

Children |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The only thing that affects your experience is the way you utilize the Non-Physical Energy with your thought.

Children | Important | Teach | Will |

Eugene Peterson

We live in a society that is in slavery. Maybe not institutionalized, but slavery, nonetheless. Freedom is on everyone’s lips. Freedom is announced and celebrated. But not many feel or act free. Evidence we live in a nation of complainers and a society of addicts. –

Children | Faith | Feelings | God | Wife | God | Learn |