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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Jeremy Taylor

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Body | Business | Counsel | Lust | Reason | Soul | Wisdom | Business |

Denise Taylor

To be present with the sensations in our body is not an act of will. It is a kind of equanimity or grace. In such movements we feel our activity belonging to life.

Body | Equanimity | Grace | Life | Life | Present | Will | Wisdom |

Sydney Smith

Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick.

Body | Justice | Soul | Wisdom |

Sydney Smith

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

Body | Justice | Soul | Wisdom |

Tauri NULL

The body is only a vehicle for a life form, and a temporary one at that.

Body | Life | Life | Wisdom |

Symeon the New Theologian, fully Saint Symeon the New Theologian NULL

When a man walks into the sea up to his knees or waist, he can see the water all around him. But when he dives into the water, he can no longer see anything outside, and he knows only that his whole body is in the water. This is what happens to those who plunge into the vision of God.

Body | God | Man | Vision | Wisdom |

Lord Edward Thurlow, First Baron

Did you expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked?

Body | Conscience | Soul | Wisdom |

Tertullian, fully Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian NULL

Every creation is subject to recurrence. Every thing you meet had a previous existence: whatever you have lost will come again. Every thing comes a second time: all things return to a settled position when they have gone away, all things begin when they have ceased to be. They are brought to an end in order that they may come into being: nothing is lost except that it may be recovered. All this revolving order of things, therefore, is evidence of the resurrection of the dead. God ordained it in works before He commanded it in writing, He proclaimed it by strength before he proclaimed it in words. He first sent you nature as teacher, intending to send you prophecy also, in order that having learnt from nature, you may the more easily believe prophecy.

Evidence | Existence | God | Nature | Nothing | Order | Position | Prophecy | Strength | Time | Will | Wisdom | Words | Writing | God |

Lord Edward Thurlow, First Baron

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

Body | Justice | Soul | Wisdom |

Paul Valéry, fully Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry

The body has its end which it does not know; the mind its means of which it is unaware.

Body | Means | Mind | Wisdom |

Greta Woodrew, Pseud. for Greta Andron Smolowe

The body is a servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind. There is a mind/body connection that is powerful. As a healer, I am convinced disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sick thoughts express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear can kill a man. People who live in fear of disease are most likely the very people who get the disease. Conversely, if you would improve your body, guard your mind.

Body | Circumstances | Disease | Fear | Health | Kill | Man | Mind | People | Thought | Wisdom |

Harry Wolfson, fully Harry Austryn Wolfson

We often mistake a desire of the body for a yearning of the soul.

Body | Desire | Mistake | Soul | Wisdom |