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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William Penn

The difference between passion and love is that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, passion wastes, by enjoyment; and the reason is that one springs from a union of souls, and other from a union of sense.

Enjoyment | Love | Passion | Reason | Sense | Wisdom |

Alexander Pope

At present we can only reason of the divine justice form what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

Ideas | Justice | Life | Life | Man | Present | Reason | Wisdom |

Alexander Pope

The feast of reason and the flow of the soul.

Reason | Soul | Wisdom |

Thomas Paine

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

Maxims | Reason | Wisdom |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Love | Madness | Reason | Wisdom |

Richard Nixon, fully Richard Milhous Nixon

The media are far more powerful than the President in creating public awareness and shaping public opinion, for the simple reason that the media always have the last word.

Awareness | Opinion | Public | Reason | Wisdom | Awareness |

Publius Syrus

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

Money | Reason | Wisdom |

Roscoe Pound, fully Nathan Roscoe Pound

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

Experience | Law | Reason | Wisdom |

Francis Quarles

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

Little | Reason | Wisdom | World | Govern |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only to listen too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body, which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

Body | Conscience | Instinct | Man | Nature | Reason | Right | Soul | Wisdom | Afraid |

John Powell, fully Sir John Powell

Consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason.

Law | Nothing | Reason | Wisdom |

Jean Philippe Rameau

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Instinct | Reason | Will | Wisdom |

Andrew Ramsay, fully Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, 1st Baronet

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

Reason | Will | Wisdom |

Jean-François Regnard

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

Hate | Love | Reason | Wisdom |

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

Nothing | Reason | Rule | Wisdom |

Noah benShea

Is it wise to love without reason? The world... was not created as an act of reason but as an act of love. And the reason for love is not reason.

Love | Reason | Wisdom | Wise | World |