Great Throughts Treasury

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Lying | Right |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Ability | Day | Good | Life | Life | Nothing | People | Thinking | Truth | Will | Work | Writing |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Dirty | Happy | Hell | Little | Love | Right | Afraid |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

'Let's leave it alone, Eddy,' Thomas Hudson said. 'It's way past things we know about.'

Confidence | Knowing | Right | Time | Forgive |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I say that is wine, Brett held up her glass. We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.' This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste. Brett's glass was empty.

Right |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

Right |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

Alchemy | Beginning | Doubt | Enough | Good | Loneliness | Man | Public | Will | Work |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Nothing | Right | Wrong | Old |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended.

Luck | Right | Luck |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

Revolution | Right | Will |

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

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Health | Mind | Sound | Truth |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

We see that man entirely resembles the higher mammals, and most of all the apes, in embryonic development as well as in anatomic structure. And if we seek to understand this ontogenetic agreement in the light of the biogenetic law, we find that it proves clearly and necessarily the descent of man from a series of other mammals, and proximately from the primates.

Church | Education | Existence | Important | Influence | Need | Order | Public |

Ernst Toller

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

Light | Truth |

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

If technology is felt to be becoming more and more inhuman, we might do well to consider whether it is possible to have something better - a technology with a human face.

Evil | Majority | Nothing | Right | Work |

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

That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, monotonous, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of "bread and circuses" can compensate for the damage done – these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence – because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

Experience | Knowledge | Technology | Truth |

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

The foundations of peace cannot be laid by universal prosperity, in the modern sense, because such prosperity, if attainable at all, is attainable only by cultivating such drives of human nature as greed and envy, which destroy intelligence, happiness, serenity, and thereby the peacefulness of man.

Little | Science | Technology | Truth | Wisdom |

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

The typical problems of life are insoluble on the level of being on which we normally find ourselves. How can one reconcile the demands of freedom and discipline in education? Countless mothers and teachers, in fact, do it, but no one can write down a solution. They do it by bringing into the situation a force that belongs to a higher level where opposites are transcended—the power of love.

Public | Truth |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

Gold | Good | Right | Thought | Think | Thought |

Ernst Toller

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

Revolution | Right |

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

Since there is now increasing evidence of environmental deterioration, particularly in living nature, the entire outlook and methodology of economics is being called into question. The study of economics is too narrow and too fragmentary to lead to valid insights, unless complemented and completed by a study of meta-economics.

Cooperation | Nature | Public | Will | Work |