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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Simone Weil

To find a place in the budget for the eternal is not in the spirit of our age.

Age | Eternal | Spirit |

James Buckham

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Character | Energy | Right | Soul | Spirit | Temptation | Trials | Trial | Temptation |

Albert Einstein

Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man presents his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Freedom | Man | Order | Spirit |

Albert Einstein

Even scholars of audacious spirit and fine instinct can be obstructed in the interpretation of facts by philosophical prejudices.

Instinct | Spirit |

James R. Flynn, aka Jim Flynn

offers the image of a chariot in which the driver uses an obedient lead horse to control another wayward horse; that is, cool reason may know the Good but cannot control the passions without a passionate ally - without a spirit that loves the Good and greets evil with moral indignation.

Control | Evil | Good | Indignation | Reason | Spirit |

Richard Leakey, fully Richard Erskine Frere Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Accident | Arrogance | Earth | Irony |

Abu Sa’id ibn abi Khayr

The veil between God and you is neither earth nor heaven, nor the throne of the footstool; your selfhood and illusions are the veil, and when you remove these, you have attained God.

Earth | God | Heaven | God |

Charles H. Simpkinson

The effects of treating the planet in ways that ignore our inherent inseparability were never more evident. And from the perspective of a consciousness shared by all living beings, the peoples of the Earth are not isolated individuals.

Consciousness | Earth |

Charles Schwab, fully Charles R. "Chuck" Schwab

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Better | Criticism | Effort | Man | Spirit | Work | Approval |

Aaron Copland

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Music | Spirit |

Woodrow Wilson

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Achievement | Hope | Order | Spirit | Vision | World |