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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Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Justice | People | Responsibility | Sense |

Raúl Juliá, aka Raul Rafael Carlos Julia y Arceley

Once you are willing to take responsibility for your life you become a master of it and you expand - you become more alive and healthier, mentally and physically.

Life | Life | Responsibility |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

Eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

Present |

W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

Imagination | Words |

Abraham Harold Maslow

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Ability | Present |

Irving Singer

Whatever our life in the present may be, and however long it may last, we are still bound by the constraints of our existence in time.

Existence | Life | Life | Present | Time |

Peter Singer

Anyone can become part of the critical mass that offers us a chance of improving the world before it is too late. You can rethink your goals and question what you are doing with your life. If your present way of living does not stand up against an impartial standard of value, then you can change it.

Chance | Change | Goals | Life | Life | Present | Question | World |

Irving Singer

Even the dead hand of the past, as in outmoded customs or bureaucracies, retains its power over the present only by a constantly renewed acquiescence among those who submit to it.

Past | Power | Present |

Abraham Harold Maslow

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Ability | Future | Past | Present | Guilty |

Anita Roddick

Let's stop teaching our children to fear change and to protect the status quo. Let's teach them to inquire and to debate, to ask questions until they hear answers. The best way to do that is to change traditional schooling.

Change | Children | Fear | Teach |

Adolph Hitler

I recognize no moral law in politics. Politics is a game, in which every sort of trick is permissible, and in which the rules are constantly being changed by the players to suit themselves.

Law | Moral law | Politics |

Aesop NULL

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

Blessings | Desire | Present | Loss |

Alan Cohen

The path of purposeful action bears a double blessing for those who walk it: in the blessing of the world is your own. Right action is the key to the re-establishment of God consciousness within your world... Let your deeds speak your message to the world. Your actions have the power to heal. This is a responsibility of great and wonderful magnitude. It is your responsibility, and it is the easiest one, for when you choose the responsibility to heal the world, you instantly allow God to heal the world through you.

Action | Consciousness | Deeds | God | Power | Responsibility | Right | World | Deeds | God |

Alan Stewart Paton

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Man | Responsibility | Society | Society |

Albert Camus

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.

Art | Circumstances | Contempt | Freedom | Life | Life | Man | Responsibility | Work | World | Art |