Great Throughts Treasury

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Ernest Becker

Not everyone is as honest as Freud was when he said that he cured the miseries of the neurotic only to open him up to the normal misery of life.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Body | Death | Education | Man | Means | Mistake | Taste | Will | Child |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

Happy | Taste |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town.

Good | People | Taste |

Estonian Proverbs

Who wants to makes his friend his enemy should loan him some money.

Taste | Will |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Use any excuse you can use to feel good - and watch what happens.

Good | Taste |

Ethel Barrymore

There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

People | Taste |

Estonian Proverbs

He who takes pains will get things done.

Taste | Will |

Ethiopian Proverbs

A belt fastened while running will come undone while running.

Love | Taste |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

In forming a habit of communicating to one another this fort of ideas by actions, mankind accustomed themselves to determine them; and from that time they began to find a greater ease in connecting them with other signs.

Perception | Regard | Respect | Taste | Will | Respect |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

The language of song or vocal music is not so familiar to us, as it was to the ancients'; and that of mere instrumental performance has no longer the air of novelty, which alone has so great an effect upon the imagination.

Ideas | Taste |

Eudora Welty

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

Books | Taste |

Eugenio Montale

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Question | Taste | Time |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Taste |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.

Preference | Taste | Will | Work |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

I don?t know,? said Frodo. ?It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard it long ago. Certainly it reminds me very much of Bilbo in the last years, before he went away. He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. It?s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door, he used to say. You step into the Road, and if you don?t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. Do you realize that this is the very path that goes through Mirkwood, and that if you let it, it might take you to the Lonely Mountain or even further and to worse places? He used to say that on the path outside the front door at Bag End, especially after he had been out for a long walk.

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