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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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am too fond of myself to hate anyone. It would constrict... my life, which I prefer to expand over the whole universe.

Character | Hate | Life | Life | Universe |

Publilius Clodius Thrasea Paetus (sometimes inverted Paetus Thrasea)

He who hates vice hates men. [hate [moral] failings and you hate people]

Character | Hate | Men | Wisdom | Vice |

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Character | Hate | Inferiority | People |

Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of his life is inverted; and the objects which administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this passion give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it. All the perfections of their fellow creatures are odious. Youth, beauty, valor and wisdom are provocations of their displeasure. What a wretched and apostate state is this! to be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him!

Beauty | Character | Excellence | Hate | Life | Life | Man | Pain | Passion | Pleasure | Valor | Valor | Wisdom | Youth |

Dada Vaswani, born Jashan Pahalraj Vaswani

What is the meaning of life? The meaning may not be expressed in words. It transcends the mind and the intellect. The meaning is to be experienced, realized... It is open to everyone who would live according to certain disciplines... The discipline of duty. Life is a field of duty, not a dance of desires... The discipline of service... We are here to help others... The opposite of love is not hate but apathy... The discipline of silence... The meaning of life is to love God and to give the service of love to the suffering children of God. And to the birds and animals who are God’s children as well.

Apathy | Character | Children | Discipline | Duty | God | Hate | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Mind | Service | Silence | Suffering | Words | God |

Pietro Arentino

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Hate | Love | Truth | Wisdom |

Bias NULL

Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love.

Day | Hate | Love | Wisdom |

John Gardiner Brainard

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

Hate | Wisdom |

Henry Bolingbroke, Henry IV of England

As thou desirest the love of God and man, beware of pride. It is a tumor in the mind, that breaks and ruins all thine actions; a worm in thy treasury, that eats and ruins thine estate. It loves no man, and is beloved of none; it disparages another's virtues by detraction, and thine own vainglory. It is the friend of the flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse of fury, the sin of devils, and devil of mankind. It hates superiors, scorns inferiors, and owns no equal. In short, till thou hate it, God hate thee.

Devil | Envy | Friend | Fury | God | Hate | Love | Man | Mankind | Mind | Mother | Pride | Sin | Wisdom | God |

Cyril Connolly, fully Cyril Vernon Connolly

There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivises. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, popularity, vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may learn to cease from hating.

Dreams | Fear | Hate | Liberty | Popularity | Wisdom | Learn |

Cyril Connolly, fully Cyril Vernon Connolly

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Fear | Hate | Man | Noise | Wisdom | Child |

Cyril Connolly, fully Cyril Vernon Connolly

We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Fear | Hate | Man | Noise | Wisdom | Child |

Ilya Ehrenburg, fully Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg

I have come to hate war not only because it kills off the flower of every nation, but because it destroys spiritual as well as material values.

Hate | War | Wisdom |

Thomas Dreier

To hate is to be enslaved by evil.

Evil | Hate | Wisdom |