Great Throughts Treasury

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George Matthew Adams

Tension is a killer! Just relax and note the immediate effect. One of peace and ease of mind. One in which every organ of the body joins. In relaxation there is unity of mind, body and spirit.

Body | Mind | Peace | Spirit | Unity | Wisdom |

Berthold Auerbach

What people will say - in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere.

People | Tyranny | Vision | Will | Wisdom | Words | World |

Stephen Samuel Wise

Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Aspiration | Character | Duty | Faith | Looks | Vision |

Astruc of Lunel, originally Abba Mari Ben Moses Ben Joseph NULL

Judaism is based upon the principle of Divine Unity, which signifies the unity and equality of all men.

Equality | Men | Unity | Wisdom |

Cecil Beaton, fully Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Daring | Integrity | Play | Purpose | Purpose | Vision | Will | Wisdom |

R. H. Blyth, fully Reginald Horace Blyth

To teach Zen means to unteach; to see life steadily and see it whole, the answer not being divided from the question; no parrying, dodging, countering, solving, changing the words; an activity which is a physical and spiritual unity with All-Activity.

Life | Life | Means | Question | Teach | Unity | Wisdom | Words | Zen |

Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu

"Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action."

Action | Day | Men | Vision | Wisdom | Work |

John Dewey

It is in education more than anywhere else that we have sincerely striven to carry into execution "the Great American Dream": the vision of a longer and fuller life for the ordinary man, a life of widened freedom, of equal opportunity for each to make of himself all that he is capable of becoming.

Education | Freedom | Life | Life | Man | Opportunity | Vision | Wisdom |

Félix Dupanloup, fully Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup

No unity can last, in married life, unless the fellowship of hearts is accompanied by the fellowship of minds. As a woman loses the charms of her youth, her husband must perceive that her mind is developing and love must be perpetuated by esteem.

Esteem | Husband | Life | Life | Love | Mind | Unity | Wisdom | Woman | Youth |

Reshad Feild, born Richard Timothy Feild

'As above, so below' means that the two worlds are instantaneously seen to be one when we realize our essential unity with God... The One and the many, time and eternity, are all One.

Eternity | God | Means | Time | Unity | Wisdom |

Milton Friedman, fully John Milton Friedman

The construction of hypotheses is a creative act of inspiration, intuition, invention; its essence is the vision of something new in familiar material.

Inspiration | Intuition | Invention | Vision | Wisdom |

Virginia Gildersleeve, fully Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Ability | Education | Future | Knowledge | Past | Service | Skill | Vision | Wisdom | Think |

Henry Giles

Whenever I contemplate man in the actual world or the ideal, I am lost amidst the infinite multiformity of his life, but always end in wonder at this essential unity of his nature.

Life | Life | Man | Nature | Unity | Wisdom | Wonder | World |

Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

The blind fanaticism of one foolish honest man may cause more evil than the united efforts of twenty rogues.

Cause | Evil | Fanaticism | Man | Wisdom |