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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Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

The good hate sin because they love virtue.

Good | Hate | Love | Sin | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

E. Stanley Jones, fully Eli Stanley Jones

A rattlesnake, if cornered, will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself.

Hate | Resentment | Will | Wisdom |

D. H. Lawrence, fully David Herbert "D.H." Lawrence

The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

Censor | Consciousness | Hate | Wisdom |

David M. Levy

If we know as much about mental health as we do about physical health, an epidemic of hate would be considered as dangerous as an epidemic of typhoid.

Hate | Health | Wisdom |

Abraham Isaac Kook

It is our right to hate an evil man for his actions, but because his deepest self is the image of God, it is our duty to honor him with love.

Duty | Evil | God | Hate | Honor | Love | Man | Right | Self | Wisdom |

André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog

Some truths between husband and wife must be spoken with sweetness. Wounded vanity is fatal to love. It makes one hate the person who inflicted the wound. In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care.

Care | Conversation | Hate | Husband | Love | Wife | Wisdom | Truths |

James Russell Lowell

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love is the true atheism.

Atheism | Faith | Hate | Love | Truth | Wisdom |

Thomas Merton

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war.

Hate | People | Soul | War | Wisdom | Think |

Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti NULL

Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

Evolution | Experience | Hate | Justice | Men | Reconciliation | Revolution | Salvation | Wisdom |

Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

Hate | Indigestion | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

Francis Wayland

That the truths of the Bible have the power of awakening an intense moral feeling in every human being; that they make bad men good, and send a pulse of healthful feeling through all the domestic, civil, and social relations; that they teach men to love right, and hate wrong, and seek each other's welfare as children of a common parent; that they control the baleful passions of the heart, and thus make men proficient in self-government; and finally that they teach man to aspire after conformity to a being of infinite holiness, and fill him with hopes more purifying, exalted, and suited to his nature than any other book the world has ever known - these are facts as incontrovertible as the laws of philosophy, or the demonstrations of mathematics.

Awakening | Bible | Children | Conformity | Control | Good | Government | Hate | Heart | Love | Man | Mathematics | Men | Nature | Philosophy | Power | Right | Self | Teach | Wisdom | World | Wrong | Bible | Truths |

Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya, aka Rabi'a of Basra or Basri, Saint Rabia of Basra

Love of God hath so absorgbed me that neither love nor hate of any thing remains in my heart.

God | Hate | Heart | Love | God |

Jeanne Achterberg

We live in a biochemical, neurophysiological, resonant quantum soup. If this is true, the responsibility for what we have for our inner life is enormous, and extends far beyond one’s own personal and spiritual development. Whatever our inner experience might be in terms of love and passion, hate and greed, abundance and longing, or any other human qualities may well not be ours alone.

Abundance | Experience | Greed | Hate | Life | Life | Longing | Love | Passion | Qualities | Responsibility |

James Baldwin, fully James Arthur Baldwin

Imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Hate | Pain | People | Sense | Will |

Obafemi Awolowo, fully Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, commonly known as Awo

Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

Cause | Hate | Object | Right | Soul |