Great Throughts Treasury

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Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL

The primary dispositions are innate; the acquired ones, like virtue and the rest, depend on the instruments. The uterine germ and the rest belong to the effect.

Action |

Edwin Percy Whipple

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

Action | Greatness |

Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL

Like the visible means, the revealed mode is also tainted, destructive and excessive. Different from these and superior is that method consisting in discriminative knowledge of the manifest, the unmanifest and the knower.

Action | Nature | People |

Edwin Percy Whipple

God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

Action | Good | Thought | Thought |

Elif Safak

How to deal with the goodness of their loved ones? Could be fought against goodness?

Chastity | Earth | Giving | Good | Guilt | Impression | Responsibility | Self | Truth | Wrong |

Elif Safak

The writer is to be selfish. And motherhood is based on the giving.

Eternity | Past | Time | World |

Elif Safak

What I’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

Past | Public |

Eleanor Holmes Norton

The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices. You cannot even simply become a mother anymore. You must choose motherhood. Will you choose change? Can you become its vanguard?

Action | Land | People |

Elif Safak

Why, what's wrong! Religions are like rivers: all flow into a sea. Mother Mary embodies compassion, mercy, love and unconditional love. It is personal, but belongs to everyone. Never mind that you're a Muslim, you can still love her and even called his daughter Maria.

Literature | People | Right | Teach | Writing |

Elias Canetti

When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.

Experience | Justice | Knowledge | Language | Literature | Man | Men | Past | People | Rights | Story | Time | Words | Worth | Child |

Elif Safak

One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another's works. That, sadly, is not always the case. Writers Rarely say anything positive About each Other.

Acceptance | Change | Mistake | Past | People | Submission |

Eli Pariser

Together, we can answer this question. If you've been holding off on contributing to a presidential campaign, now's the time to jump in. We have a Democratic nominee, and he needs our support today.

Principles |

Elihu Root

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Effort | Men | Mob | Occupation | Organization | Past | Power | Principles | Purpose | Purpose | Success | Work |

Elihu Root

The old system of exploitation of colonies and the monopolization of their trade for the benefit of the mother country has practically disappeared.

Action | Argument | Conduct | Doctrine | Peace | Propaganda |

Albert Einstein

If you ask for the purpose or goal of society as a whole or of an individual taken as a whole the question loses its meaning. This is, of course, even more so if you ask the purpose or meaning of nature in general. For in those cases it seems quite arbitrary if not unreasonable to assume somebody whose desires are connected with the happenings.

Action | Consequences | Desire | Earnestness | Fulfillment | Individual | Life | Life | Mankind | Opinion | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Struggle |

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the Black middle class.

Action | Important |

William Shakespeare

Rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, which gives men stomach to digest his words, with better appetite.

Action | Cause | Grace | Little | World | Blessed |

William Shakespeare

Remember, sir, my liege, the kings your ancestors, together with the natural bravery of your isle, which stands as Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in with rocks unscalable and roaring waters, with sands that will not bear your enemies' boats but suck them up to th' topmast.

Memory | Observation | Past | Youth | Youth |

William Shakespeare

Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes--I will be brief.

Action | Beauty | Rage | Time | Beauty |

William Shakespeare

Since you know you cannot see yourself so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself that of yourself which yet you know not of.

Blush | Doubt | History | Honor | Innocence | Life | Life | Mother | Past | Tyranny | Will |