Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Jerome K. Jerome, fully Jerome Klapka Jerome

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Eternity | Time | Wisdom | World |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or make it the last.

History | Mankind | Power | Wisdom | World |

Wingate M. Johnson, fully Wingate Memory Johnson

Think of what the world would have missed had a retirement age, even at 70, been universally enforced.

Age | Retirement | Wisdom | World |

R. D. Laing, fully Ronald David Laing

When the Copernican Revolution superseded the ancient Polemic world view, the earth took its rightful place as one planet among many. Man was no longer the center of the universe and though his self-image was deflated, he grew in maturity. In the same way, we must take our rightful place in nature - not as its self-centered and profligate "master" with the divine right of kings to exploit and despoil, but as one species living in harmony with the whole.

Earth | Exploit | Harmony | Man | Nature | Revolution | Right | Self | Universe | Wisdom | World |

Charles Lamb

The world meets nobody half-way.

Wisdom | World |

Wanda Landowska

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

Inspiration | Joy | Learning | Passion | Research | Wisdom | World |

Søren Kierkegaard, fully Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

A man’s life begins with the illusion that a long, long time and w hole world lie before him, and he begins with the foolish conceit that he has plenty of time for all his many claims.

Illusion | Life | Life | Man | Plenty | Time | Wisdom | World |

William Mather Lewis

Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything in the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.

People | Thinking | Wisdom | World | Propaganda | Victim |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Conformity | Majority | Security | Success | Wisdom | World |

Charles Lamb

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child’s heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

Childhood | Heart | Wisdom | World |

Andrew David Kopkind

To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win...Woman loves with her whole soul. To woman love is life, to man it is the joy of life.

Change | Enough | Hope | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Risk | Soul | Struggle | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Hans-Broder Krohn

Feeding the people of the world is no longer a philanthropic project for the missionaries. There will be no peace in this world, until the worst imbalances around the world are eliminated.

Peace | People | Will | Wisdom | World |

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

My body is that part of the world which my thoughts can alter. Even imaginary illnesses can become real ones. In the rest of the world my hypotheses cannot disturb the order of things.

Body | Order | Rest | Wisdom | World |

George Henry Lewes

The world desires to know what you have done, and hot how you did it.

Wisdom | World |

Newman Levy

If a man builds a better mousetrap than his neighbor, the world will not only beat a path to his door, it will make newsreels of him and his wife in beach pajamas, it will discuss his diet and his health, it will publish heart-throb stories of his love life.

Better | Diet | Health | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Man | Wife | Will | Wisdom | World |

Gottfried Leibniz, fully Gottfried Wilhalm von Leibniz, Baron von Leibnitz

There is a world of created beings - living things, animals, entelechies, and souls - in the least part of matter... Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

Appearance | Nothing | Universe | Waste | Wisdom | World |