Great Throughts Treasury

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Felix Adler

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.

Events | Force | Life | Life | Meaning | Learn |

Felix Adler

To those who are longing for a higher life, who deeply feel the need of religious satisfactions, we suggest that there is a way in which the demands of the head and the heart may be reconciled. Religion is not necessarily allied with dogma, a new kind of faith is possible, based not upon legend and tradition, not upon the authority of any book, but upon the moral nature of man.

Belief | Misfortune | Need | Past | Progress | Truth | Misfortune | Truths |

Gustave Flaubert

Love, she felt, ought to come all at once, with great thunderclaps and flashes of lightning; it was like a storm bursting upon life from the sky, uprooting it, overwhelming the will, and sweeping the heart into the abyss. It did not occur to her that rain forms puddles on a flat roof when the drainpipes are clogged, and she would have continued to feel secure if she had not suddenly discovered a crack in the wall.

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Italian Proverbs

Take care you don't let your tail be caught in the door.

Events |

Italian Proverbs

Who hath no courage must have legs.

Events | War |

Italian Proverbs

There's no place like home.

Government | Past | War | Government | Propaganda |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Curiosity | Error | Experience | Important | Life | Life | Nothing | Past | Pleasure | Price | Pride | Sense | Story | Teach | Time | Waiting | Will | Wrong |

Italian Proverbs

Who seeks a quarrel will find it near at hand.

Need | Past |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finw‰; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.

Absolute | Life | Life | Past | Waste |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

Father | Future | Light | Past | Think |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

The wisdom of one generation will be the folly of the next.

Future | Past |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'

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