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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Saint John of Kronstadt, fully John Il’ich Serguiev, aka Holy Father John of the Kronstadt NULL

When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God. Truly they do; for they are all one in God, and where God is, there are they also. Where the sun is, thither also are directed all its rays. Try to understand what this means.

Church | Consciousness | Heart | Lord | Mother |

Salman Rushdie, fully Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Angels | Daring | Day | Doubt | Evidence | Play | Right | Will | Old |

Saki, pen name for Hector Hugh Munro or H.H. Munro NULL

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Evidence | People | Thinking | Think |

Salman Rushdie, fully Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie

Free speech is a non-starter, says one of my Islamic extremist opponents. No, sir, it is not. Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Evidence | People |

Salman Rushdie, fully Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie

In the place from which I began, after all, I watched the film from the child's - Dorothy's point of view. I experienced, with her, the frustration of being brushed aside by Uncle Henry and Auntie Em, busy with their dull grown-up counting. Like all adults, they couldn't focus on what was really important to Dorothy: namely, the threat to Toto. I ran away with Dorothy and then ran back. Even the shock of discovering that the Wizard was a humbug was a shock I felt as a child, a shock to the child's faith in adults. Perhaps, too, I felt something deeper, something I couldn't articulate; perhaps some half-formed suspicion about grown-ups was being confirmed.

Chance | Evidence | Life | Life |

Samuel Butler

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Consciousness | Unconsciousness | Understand |

Samuel Clarke

Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists, who believe that chance could make the world, when it cannot build a house.

Evidence | God | Life | Life | Love | Obedience | Religion | Trial | God |

Samuel Gompers

I agree with you, too, that it is hardly fair to have our people crowded out of employment by those who simply come here for the purpose of working at low wages -- higher than those they may be accustomed to in their own countries-- and then after a while return there. I am also free to say to you, however, that I do not see how a remedy is to be obtained without closing the ports entirely, and as to that there is considerable division of opinion. It may not be amiss to call attention to the fact that the introduction of one machine in a trade may throw more men out of employment than the Greeks who come here even in the manner which you describe.

Evidence | Hope | Labor | Life | Life | Men | Past | Prejudice | Race | Receive | Think |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.

Consciousness | Death | Entertainment | Equality | Gloom | Glory | Hero | Little | Man | Mortal | Nothing | Will | Wit | Instruction |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Evidence |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Consciousness | Heart | Reflection | Thought | Tragedy | Thought |

Samuel Smiles

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Action | Consciousness | Effort | Existence | Man | Men | Poverty | Power | Struggle | Will | World |

Shunryu Suzuki, also Daisetsu Teitaro or D.T. Suzuki or Suzuki-Roshi

We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.

Consciousness | Desire | Self | War |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

Aggressiveness was not created by property. It reigned almost without limit in primitive times, when property was still very scanty, and it already shows itself in the nursery almost before property has given up its primal, anal form; it forms the basis of every relation of affection and love among people (with the single exception, perhaps, of the mother's relations to her male child).

Evidence | Love | Man |

Sydney J. Harris

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Argument | Belief | Evidence | Reason | Truths |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

Consciousness is energy received and decoded by a structure. In human beings, the receiving-decoding structures are neuro-chemical.

Consciousness |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Consciousness | Nature | Reality | Sense | World |