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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Philo, aka Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew NULL

Geometry gives us the sense of equality produced by proportion. It also heals by means of fine music all that is harsh and inharmonious or discordant in the soul, under the influence of rhythm, meter and melody.

Equality | Influence | Means | Melody | Music | Sense | Soul | Wisdom |

Cecil F. Poole

Peace is a value which man has always sought: Peace among the nations, peace among men, but most of all peace of mind. While man has sought peace external to himself, he may have overlooked the fact that the peace that will influence all living things will be the peace that is first discovered within himself.

Influence | Man | Men | Mind | Nations | Peace | Will | Wisdom | Value |

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Lord John Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Fear | Influence | Man | Wisdom | Think |

Alfred Billings Street

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

Existence | Heart | Influence | Man | Mind | Nature | Search | Wisdom |

Robert South, fully Bishop Robert South

Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed so general, that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid to devotion.

Devotion | Influence | Man | Mind | Prudence | Prudence | Reason | Religion | Soul | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Parent |

Marcus Bach, fully James Marcus Bach

In this world within, your world, you are the most important figure. There is a place that no one else can fill There is an influence that no one else can impart. There is a life that no one else can live quite as well as you can live it. What you do with your life within, in terms of self-realization, self-awareness, self-denial and self-expression, is the greatest challenge that can come to you.

Awareness | Challenge | Important | Influence | Life | Life | Self | Self-awareness | Self-denial | Self-realization | World |

Ashoka or Ashoka the Great NULL

One should honour another man’s sect, for by doing so one increases the influence of one’s own sect and benefits that of the other man.

Influence | Man |

Etel Adnan

There is a dialectical relation between one’s life and one’s work. The former obviously influences the latter, but one’s work also becomes an influence on one’s life. It is atwo way affair, a mysterious process where what we call life and what we call creation merge, and do not merge, cross feed each other.

Influence | Life | Life | Work |

Sven Birkerts

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.

Influence | Life | Life | Reality | Right | Wrong |

Stokely Carmichael

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Change | Influence |

Edward Hallet "Ted" Carr

The most effective way to influence opinion is by the selection and arrangement of the appropriate facts.

Influence | Opinion |

Center of Concern NULL

Idolatry is the denial of all hope for the future. The idols of the past were worshipped by people who were afraid of change, who wanted things to remain the same, who did not want a future that was different, who found their security in the status quo. The same is true today.

Change | Future | Hope | Past | People | Security | Afraid |

L. Francis Edmunds

Materialism assumes a line of `continuity’ running through the whole scheme of nature, despite its obvious gaps; on the contrary, he underlines the significance of `discontinuity’ as positive evidence of the intervention of a higher source of influence which escapes man’s limited `scale of observation.’ A giant or a microbe would, with similar intelligence, observe the same phenomenon differently; they might be guided by their scales of observation to different, or at least, to modified conclusions. There is no scientific truth in an absolute sense. The phrase Ad veritatem per scientiam is an absurdity.

Absolute | Evidence | Influence | Intelligence | Man | Materialism | Nature | Observation | Sense | Truth |

Leon Eisenberg

Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.

Comfort | Guilt | Luxury | Man | Pessimism |

William G. Cole

What makes a marriage is the consent of the partners, their serious intention to live together in some sense, however dimly perceived, as “one flesh,” a union of their two separate existences into still a third existence, the marriage itself… The question of external status is entirely and altogether unnecessary.

Existence | Intention | Marriage | Question | Sense |

Michael Dell, fully Michael Saul Dell

There’s no risk in preserving the status quo, but there’s no profit, either.

Risk |

Vine Deloria, fully Vine Victor Deloria, Jr.

All species, all forms of life, have equal status before the presence of the universal power to which we are all subject. The religious requirement for all life-forms is thus harmony, and this requirement holds for every species, ours included… As long as the bond of life is respected, all species have value and meaning.

Harmony | Life | Life | Meaning | Power | Value |

Millicent Fenwick

Influence comes out of the work that you’ve done and the things you’ve stood for. Influence and power shouldn’t be given to just anybody who wants them.

Influence | Power | Wants | Work |