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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Clarence Cook "C.C." Little, M.D.

Internal balance is health and internal unbalance is sickness.

Balance | Health | Wisdom |

Christopher Morley, fully Christopher Darlington Morley

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.

Attention | Man | Wisdom |

Carey McWilliams

Anti-Semitism is a social disease. Anti-Semitism is an excellent diagnostic device to use in studying the health and well-being of society. For it is a harbinger of war, the fear of inadequacy that, in moments of crisis, breeds havoc and social panic.

Anti-semitism | Disease | Fear | Health | Panic | Society | War | Wisdom |

Bons (Leonidovich) Pasternak

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected, if day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, our soul exists in space inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.

Body | Day | Health | Life | Life | Majority | Misfortune | Nothing | Soul | Space | System | Wisdom |

Theodore Parker

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading. But a great book that comes from a great thinker - it is a ship of thought, deep-freighted with truth and with beauty.

Beauty | Books | Learning | Reading | Thought | Truth | Wisdom | Think |

Babe Paley, fully Barbara Cushing "Babe" Mortimer Paley

The common course of things is in favor of happiness. Happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want.

Attention | Disease | Health | Order | Rule | Wisdom | Happiness |

Joseph Parker

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker - it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.

Beauty | Books | Learning | Reading | Thought | Truth | Wisdom | Think |

Novalis, pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg NULL

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure, a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

Disease | Wisdom | Talent |

Austin O'Malley

Physical science reads through its sense of touch like a blind man, and the supply of books in braille type on the spiritual life is very small.

Books | Life | Life | Man | Science | Sense | Wisdom |

William Osler, fully Sir William Osler

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Disease | Important | Wisdom |

Thomas Paine

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the least push that one or the other takes the lead.

Danger | Disease | Wisdom | Danger |

Paul Pearsall

All disease is brain disease... Only when the immune system is viewed as a world system will disease be reduced.

Disease | System | Will | Wisdom | World |

William Rothenstein, fully Sir William Rothenstein

There are fashions in immortality as there are trivial fashions. Books and pictures read differently to different generations.

Books | Immortality | Wisdom |