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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Samuel Butler

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Books | Man |

Samuel Butler

With crosses, relics, crucifixes, beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes, The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation.

Books | Money | Opinion |

Samuel Gompers

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

Better | Books | Childhood | Consideration | Fate | Happy | Justice | Labor | Learning | Leisure | Society | Work | Fate | Society |

Samuel Gompers

When the Bohemians began to come to New York in large numbers and allowed themselves to be used by the employers to build up the tenement system which threatened to submerge the standards of life and work that we had established, I felt that those tenement workers were foreigners. The first step in Americanizing them was to bring them to conform to American standards of work, which was a stepping stone to American standards of life.

Books | Children | Industry | Labor |

Samuel Gompers

What we have endeavored to secure in industrial relations is industrial peace. When industrial justice prevails, industrial peace will follow. It is a result and not an end in itself.

Better | Books | Childhood | Happy | Justice | Labor | Learning | Leisure |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Books | Learning | Will |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Books | Wit |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

I take the true definition of exercise to be, labor without weariness.

Books | Will | Old |

Samuel Tilden, fully Samuel Jones Tilden

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Books |

Sholem Asch, born Szalom Asz, also written Shalom Asch

It's alright--there are many avenues, many corridors of the soul that are dark also.

Books | Love |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Books | Enough | Important | Influence | Knowledge | Listening | People | Psychoanalysis | Reading | Time |

Shvetashvatara Upanishad

When men shall roll up space as if it were a piece of hide, then there will be an end of misery without one’s cultivating the Knowledge of the Lord, who is without parts, without actions, tranquil, blameless, unattached, the supreme bridge to Immortality, an like a fire that has consumed all its fuel.

Age | Body | Books | Old age | Old |

Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir

When Sartre and I met not only did our backgrounds fuse, but also our solidity, our individual conviction that we were what we were made to be. In that framework we could not become rivals. Then, as the relationship between Sartre and me grew, I became convinced that I was irreplaceable in his life, and he in mine. In other words, we were totally secure in the knowledge that our relationship was also totally solid, again preordained, though, of course, we would have laughed at that word then. When you have such security it's easy not to be jealous. But had I thought that another woman played the same role as I did in Sartre's life, of course, I would have been jealous.

Books | Culture |

Arthur Helps, fully Sir Arthur Helps

A friend is one who does not laugh when you are in a ridiculous position.

Books | Honor | Think |

Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

Advice | Bible | Books | Life | Life | Oblivion | Sacred | Spirit | Words | Bible |

Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Books | Good | Life | Life |

Thérèse de Lisieux, fully Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin NULL

I ought to seek the company of those Sisters who according to nature please me least. I ought to fulfill in their regard the office of the Good Samaritan. A word, a kindly smile, will often suffice to gladden a wounded and sorrowful heart.

Books | Children | Little | Practice | Will |

Stephan Jay Gould

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

Books | Future | Honor | Light | Love | Practice | Universe | Words | Old |

Stephan Jay Gould

I relish the fact that we New Yorkers talk funny, and that art deco skyscrapers symbolize our city… But we must set boundaries to this love of variety. I accept the need, even the blessings, of standardization in practical matters: we require a worldwide telephone dialing system and a network of national highways…. We need domains of standardization, and realms of regionalism, each in its appropriate place, and linked in mutual respect and recognition. I accept and even want McDonalds at the highway interchange—but not in my little neighborhood of ethnic restaurants, and not next to the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota.

Books | Future |

Stephan Jay Gould

I can only look from the outside (or cut into the inside, but flesh and genes do not reveal organic totality). I am stuck with a panoply of ineluctably indirect methods - some very sophisticated to be sure. I can atomize, experiment, and infer. I can record reams of data about behaviors and responses. But if I could be a beetle or a bacillus for that one precious minute - and live to tell the tale in perfect memory - then I might truly fulfill Darwin's dictum penned into an early notebook containing the first full flowering of his evolutionary ideas during the late 1830's: He who understands the baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

Books | Hope | Language |