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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Edwin Percy Whipple

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

Heart | Ideas | Imagination | Insight | Manners | Mind | Wisdom |

Carol Adrienne

Purpose is about developing relationships. Purpose is about bringing attention and intention into the present moment, moving ahead with new ideas, giving and receiving support, volunteering, mentoring, listening to the imagination and intuition, communicating, taking action based on inner direction and hints from the external, being adaptable, taking responsibility and ending the victim stance forever surrendering to the divine will and working with the lessons developing fluidity, tolerance, compassion, and the ability to love.

Ability | Action | Attention | Compassion | Giving | Ideas | Imagination | Intention | Intuition | Listening | Love | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Responsibility | Will | Victim |

Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men’s souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

Awe | Comfort | Men | Wealth | World | Happiness | Learn |

Adele Brookman

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Death | Imagination | Life | Life |

Hélder Câmara, fully Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara

Selfishness is the deepest root of all unhappiness... It feeds an insatiable hunger that first eats up everything belonging to others and then causes a creature to devour itself.

Hunger | Selfishness | Unhappiness |

Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Enough | Imagination | Important | Knowledge | World |

José Figueres, fully José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer, aka Don Pepe

Peace will help development. Development will engender peace. They are both causes and effects. They strengthen each other.

Peace | Will |

Germaine Greer

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy and envy.

Envy | Jealousy | Laziness | Prejudice | Regret | Temper |

Romano Guardini

The most effective kind of prayer is that in which we place ourselves, in our hearts, before God, relinquishing all resistance, letting go of all secret irritation, opening ourselvse to the truth, to God’s holy mystery, saying over and over again, “I desire truth, I am ready to receive it, even this truth which causes me such concern, if it be the truth. Give me the light to know it – and to see how it bears on me.”

Desire | God | Light | Mystery | Prayer | Receive | Truth |

David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins

Basic axiomatic positionalities of the ego: (1) Phenomena are either good or bad, right or wrong, just or unjust, fair or unfair. (2) The `bad’ deserve to be punished and the `good’ rewarded. (3) Things happen by accident or else they are the fault of somebody else. (4) the mind is capable of comprehending and recognizing truth from falsehood. (5) The word causes and determines one’s experiences. (6) Life is unfair because the innocent suffer while the wicked go unpunished. (7) People can be different than they are. (8) It is critical and necessary to be right. (9) It is critical and necessary to win. (10) Wrongs must be righted. (11) Righteousness must prevail. (12) Perceptions represent reality.

Accident | Ego | Falsehood | Fault | Good | Life | Life | Mind | People | Phenomena | Reality | Right | Righteousness | Truth | Wrong | Fault |

Hitopadesa, translated means Book of Good Counsels NULL

How can true happiness proceed from wealth, which in its acquisition causes pain; ;in loss, affliction; in abundance, folly.

Abundance | Affliction | Folly | Pain | Wealth | Happiness |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false, and the false with the true.

Hate | Man | Objectivity | Personality | Sense | Ugly | Unity |

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.

Existence | Imagination | Truth |

Glenn W. Lehrer

Crystals are like concentrated knowledge pressed into crystalline form. They are the culmination of life force coming together in time and space. The crystal shows nature’s urge for symmetry and perfection. Our life purpose is like that – purposeful curiosity and imagination yearning for balance and beauty.

Balance | Beauty | Curiosity | Force | Imagination | Knowledge | Life | Life | Nature | Perfection | Purpose | Purpose | Space | Time |

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.

Existence | Imagination | Nature | Power |

Thomas Merton

The present world crisis... is a crisis of man’s spirit. It is a great religious and moral upheaval of the human race, and we do not really know half the causes of this upheaval.

Human race | Man | Present | Race | Spirit | World | Crisis |

Joseph de Maistre, fully Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre

How can we be so willfully blind as to look for causes in nature when nature herself is an effect?

Nature |