Great Throughts Treasury

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

Hell | Life | Life | Reason | Suicide |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

Life | Life |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.

Enough | Happy | Life | Life | Praise | Rest | Value |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Life | Life | War | Worry |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.

Life | Life |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

These two branches of our science--on the one side ontogeny or embryology, and on the other phylogeny, or the science of race-evolution--are most vitally connected. The one cannot be understood without the other.

Life | Life | Little | Value |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

Life | Life | Man | Property | Worth |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Life | Life |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

I believe, therefore, that the best way to make contact with the essential problem is by speaking of technology: economic development in poverty-stricken areas can be fruitful only on the basis of what I have called "intermediate technology." In the end, intermediate technology will be "labor-intensive" and will lend itself to the use of small-scale establishments

Life | Life | People | Poverty |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

It is true that all men are brothers, but it is also true that in our active personal relationships we can, in fact, be brothers to only a few of them, and we are called upon to show more brotherliness to them than we could possibly show to the whole of mankind.

Life | Life | Position | World |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

Even an economist might well ask: what is the point of economic progress, a so-called higher standard of living, when the earth, the only earth we have, is being contaminated by substances which may cause malformations in our children or grandchildren?

Conduct | Doubt | Knowledge | Life | Life | Little | Man | Meaning | Purpose | Purpose | Will |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

If your heart vibrate looking Resist oppression then silence is a form of treason because

Beauty | Life | Life | People | Spirit | Understanding | Will | Beauty |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Revolutionaries filling the world banging for the world to not sleep weighed on the bodies of the poor.

Better | Birth | Hope | Labor | Life | Life | Time | Will |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

Phylogenesis is the mechanical cause of ontogenesis.

Life | Life |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

There is no such thing as the viability of states or of nations, there is only a problem of viability of people: people, actual persons like you and me, are viable when they can stand on their own feet and earn their keep. You do not make non-viable people viable by putting large numbers of them into one huge community, and you do not make viable people non-viable by splitting a large community into a number of smaller, more intimate, more coherent and more manageable groups.

Life | Life |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

To which the senses retort; 'Poor intellect, do you hope to defeat us while from us you borrow your evidence? Your victory is your defeat.'

Life | Life | Sense |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

Angels | Fear | Happy | Imagination | Life | Life | Magnanimity | Mockery | Nothing | Risk |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

The essence of educationÂ…is the transmission of values, but values do not help us to pick our way through life unless they have become our own, a part, so to say, of our mental make-up. This means that they are more than mere formulae or dogmatic assertions: that we think and feel with them, that they are the very instruments through which we look at, interpret, and experience the world.

Effort | Life | Life |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

The marketÂ… represents only the surface of society and its significance relates to the momentary situation as it exists there and then. There is no probing into the depths of things, into the natural or social facts that lie behind them. In a sense, the market is the institutionalization of individualism and non-responsibility. Neither buyer nor seller is responsible for anything but himself.

Life | Life | Man | Neglect |