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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John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Determination | Disease | Future | Hope | Means | Mockery | Poverty | Self | Self-determination | Wisdom |

William James

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Genius | Little | Means | Truth | Wisdom |

Ken Kesey

Although the exact number may vary, the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people. But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!

Awareness | Means | People | Property | Wisdom | Awareness |

Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla

Old disease patterns keep replicating themselves when the old thought patterns stay the same. All healing techniques serve to bring about a change in consciousness, which means a new expectancy of wholeness. What you expect at the deepest level is what you get. Your body loves to hear the truth about itself. Your body cannot help but respond to an awareness of and an expectancy of wholeness.

Awareness | Body | Change | Consciousness | Disease | Means | Thought | Truth | Wholeness | Wisdom | Awareness | Old | Thought |

Rockwell Kent

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Art | Mankind | Means | Understanding | Wisdom |

Søren Kierkegaard, fully Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

Perfect love means to love the one through whom one became unhappy.

Love | Means | Wisdom |

Robert Leighton

God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels; and those He especially loves and means to make the most resplendent, He hath oftenest His tools upon.

God | Means | Wisdom |

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought is not sacred, thought is a material process. This is where our difficulty lies. Thought is a movement in time.

Difficulty | Sacred | Thought | Time | Wisdom | Thought |

Gottfried Leibniz, fully Gottfried Wilhalm von Leibniz, Baron von Leibnitz

By means of the soul or form there is a true unity which corresponds to what is called the I in us.

Means | Soul | Unity | Wisdom |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Ends | Means | Men | Power | Wisdom |

Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein

The Divine Mind communicates with the human mind through the imagination. A prayer, therefore, should be offered in the form of a mental image. Man must visualize the thing he desires, he must use his imaginative powers to form his petition in terms clearly outlined in his own mind. The profound concentration of attention and thought which this form of prayer requires fills also the heart with deep earnestness and devotion. Man must pray whole-heartedly as well as wholemindedly; he must believe in his heart that his well-being depends completely upon his prayer.

Attention | Devotion | Earnestness | Heart | Imagination | Man | Mind | Prayer | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton

Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

Means | Right | Society | Wisdom | Society |

Søren Kierkegaard, fully Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

Paradox | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |