Great Throughts Treasury

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Shvetashvatara Upanishad

As the sun shines, illumining all the quarters-above, below and across-so also God, self-resplendent, adorable and non-dual, controls all objects, which themselves possess the nature of a cause.

Earth | Gold | Truth |

Simone Weil

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Desire | Gold | Need | People |

Simon Wiesenthal

Anyone who denies the crimes and genocide of the past is opening up the way for the murders of the future.

Earth | Ends | Future | Gold | Health | Heart | Imagination | Justice | Knowledge | Life | Life | Men | Nature | Riches | Soul | Virtue | Virtue | Will | World | Riches | Old |

Simone Weil

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention. If we could be attentive to the same degree in the presence of a human being.

God | Gold | Little | God |

Sinéad O’Connor, fully Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

Evil | Gold | Receive |

Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,--not the best of them.

Gold | Good |

Ambrose, aka Saint Ambrose, fully Aurelius Ambrosius NULL

Lord, teach me to seek you, and reveal yourself to me when I seek you. For I cannot seek you unless you first teach me, nor find you unless you first reveal yourself to me. Let me seek you in longing and long for you in seeking. Let me find you in love, and love you in finding.

God | Gold | Order | Understanding | God |

Theodore Parker

You and I toiling for earth may at the same time be toiling for heaven, and every day's work may be a Jacob's ladder reaching up nearer to God.

Achievement | Commerce | Day | Eternity | Fear | God | Gold | Heart | Ideas | Love | Men | Omnipotence | Praise | Religion | Temptation | Truth | Will | Commerce | God | Temptation |

Theodore Cuyler, fully Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.

Gold | Happy | Lord | Will |

Thomas Campbell

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

Day | Gold | Important | Knowing | Life | Life | Pride | Time |

Thomas Carlyle

There are but two ways of paying a debt; increase of industry in raising income, or increase of thrift in laying out.

Gold | Nothing | Trust | Will | World | Old |

Thomas Hobbes

Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

Gold | Money | Power | Value |

Thomas Jefferson

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism.

Debt | Gold | Public | Salvation | Truth | Will |

Thomas Jefferson

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Gold | Stupidity |

Thomas Jefferson

The real friends of the Constitution in its federal form, if they wish it to be immortal, should be attentive, by amendments, to make it keep pace with the advance of the age in science and experience. Instead of this, the European governments have resisted reformation, until the people, seeing no other resource, undertake it themselves by force, their only weapon, and work it out through blood, desolation and long-continued anarchy.

Gold | Question | Will |

Thomas Mann, fully Paul Thomas Mann

He was simply not a hero, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.

Aesthetic | Consecration | Gold | Greed | Society | Society |

Thomas Middleton

All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear The better reason.

Gold |

Thomas Paine

People in general do not know what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! it is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty?

Body | Gold | Money | Nature | Truth |

William Blake

When the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still. ‘Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down, And the dews of night arise; Come, come, leave off play, and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies.’ ‘No, no, let us play, for it is yet day, And we cannot go to sleep; Besides, in the sky the little birds fly, And the hills are all cover’d with sheep.’ ‘Well, well, go and play till the light fades away, And then go home to bed.’ The little ones leapèd and shoutèd and laugh’d And all the hills echoèd.

Age | Doubt | Envy | Eternity | God | Gold | Good | Grave | Grief | Heaven | Hell | Innocence | Joy | Judgment | Knowledge | Light | Little | Passion | Philosophy | Public | Revenge | Right | Soul | Teach | Truth | Woe | Woman | Words | World | Worth | God | Child | Old |

William Henley, fully William Ernest Henley

Ballade of Dead Actors - Where are the passions they essayed, And where the tears they made to flow? Where the wild humours they portrayed For laughing worlds to see and know? Othello's wrath and Juliet's woe? Sir Peter's whims and Timon's gall? And Millamant and Romeo? Into the night go one and all. Where are the braveries, fresh or frayed? The plumes, the armours -- friend and foe? The cloth of gold, the rare brocade, The mantles glittering to and fro? The pomp, the pride, the royal show? The cries of war and festival? The youth, the grace, the charm, the glow? Into the night go one and all. The curtain falls, the play is played: The Beggar packs beside the Beau; The Monarch troops, and troops the Maid; The Thunder huddles with the Snow. Where are the revellers high and low? The clashing swords? The lover's call? The dancers gleaming row on row? Into the night go one and all.

Age | Chance | Duty | Fear | Gold | Need | Politics | Time | War | Wit |