Great Throughts Treasury

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Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

Knowledge is the most important thing without which one cannot achieve his goal.

Wealth |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Ability |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

A person might appear poor, distressed, and depressed to ordinary mortals; he might not have the exterior demonstration of devotion, but God could be ever installed in his heart, guiding and guarding him. He might be doing all acts as acts of worship to the God residing in his heart.

Means | Mind | Nothing | Time | Wealth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Money comes and... goes. But morality? It comes and grows. Morality has to be grown in the heart by feeding it with Love; then only we can have justice, security, law and order.

Character | Conduct | Good | Wealth | Wisdom |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Human beings should tread on the righteous path and act in such a way that his past is unblemished, present full of potential and future becomes secured.

Dishonor | Lord | Love | Misfortune | Wealth | Misfortune |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Honor and dishonor are the same to me; I have placed my forehead upon the Guru's Feet. Wealth does not excite me, and misfortune does not disturb me; I have embraced love for my Lord and Master.

Family | Lord | Property | Sacred | Trust | Wealth | Worship |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

One who knows thyself perfectly is blessed with enthusiasm without which success is impossible.

Need | Wealth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

May you be blessed with that benediction which transcends worldly happiness, and may scholars show you the path .

Wealth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The earth upon which the sea, and the rivers and the waters, upon which food and the tribes of men have arisen, upon which this breathing, moving life exists, shall afford us precedence in drinking.

Earth | Gold | Wealth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

I threw off the veil of illusion, when I met my Lord and Master; then, I forgot my jealousy of others.

Mind | Surrender | Wealth |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner of later one shall definitely gets the fruits.

Charity | Immortality | Wealth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

It takes time for a fruit to mature and acquire sweetness and become eatable; time is a prime factor for most good fortunes.

Cultivation | Delusion | Hypothesis | Means | People | Present | Wealth | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

A miser, unwilling to spend his money, fails to utilize his wealth properly. His mind is occupied by nothing but only one thought-how to preserve his wealth. To ensure the safety of his wealth, he spends most of his time worrying about the means to guard it. Thus, he becomes lethargic.

Man | Wealth | Work |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Those, who get attracted by ignorance and superficial worldly pleasures meet their ends early.

Good | Respect | Success | Wealth | Respect |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Those who seek their Sanctuary are carried across; in the Society of the Saints, their hopes are fulfilled.

Wealth |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

There is in life the tragedy of ignorance and selfishness. They force man to take the wrong road; and suffer calamity.

Life | Life | Money | Order | Wealth |

Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.

The remedy for the Great Depression is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others… the American way.

Despise | Good | Meaning | Pious | Question | Sense | Society | Wealth | Will | Society | Old | Understand |

Vannevar Bush

The Encyclopoedia Britannica could be reduced to the volume of a matchbox. A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk. If the human race has produced since the invention of movable type a total record, in the form of magazines, newspapers, books, tracts, advertising blurbs, correspondence, having a volume corresponding to a billion books, the whole affair, assembled and compressed, could be lugged off in a moving van. Mere compression, of course, is not enough; one needs not only to make and store a record but also to be able to consult it, and this aspect of the matter comes later. Even the modern great library is not generally consulted; it is nibbled by a few.

Ability | Difficulty | Experience | Important | Means | Present |

Václav Havel

The previous regime — armed with its arrogant and intolerant ideology — reduced man to a force of production, and nature to a tool of production. In this it attacked both their very substance and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people, skillfully working in their own country, to the nuts and bolts of some monstrously huge, noisy and stinking machine, whose real meaning was not clear to anyone.

Ability | Absurd | Irony | Sense |

Václav Havel

Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.

Ability | Enemy |