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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Arthur C Clarke, formally Sir Arthur Charles Clark

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Magic | Technology |

Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

Civilization | Heart |

Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Propaganda |

Charles Horton Cooley

There is a community of hatred. Hatred floods your mind with the ideas of the one you hate. Your thought reflects his, and you act in his spirit. If you wish to be like your enemy, to be wholly his, open your mind and hate him.

Enemy | Hate | Ideas | Mind | Spirit | Thought | Thought |

Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

Hate burns up more energy than anything else, more than hard work, illness or justifiable worry. So when hatred is entering our hearts, let us just put it out, make room for pleasant thoughts instead, save our precious God-given energy for something worthy of it.

Energy | God | Hate | Work | Worry |

Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

Gratitude | Think |

Edmund Burke

War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people. They vitiate their politics; they corrupt their morals; they pervert their natural taste and relish of equity and justice. By teaching us to consider our fellow-citizens in a hostile light, the whole body of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us. The very nature of affection and kindred, which were the bond of charity, whilst we agreed, become new incentives to hatred and rage, when the communion of our country is dissolved.

Body | Charity | Danger | Equity | Justice | Light | Manners | Nature | Obligation | People | Politics | Rage | Taste | War | Danger |

Eric Hoffer

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Love | Self | Troubles | World |

Eric Hoffer

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

Enemy | Hate | Magnanimity | Wrong |

George Santayana

Life imposes selfish interests and subjective views on every inhabitant of earth: and in hugging these interests and these views the man hugs what he initially assumes to be the truth, a sort of antecedent hatred of it as contrary to presumption, is interwoven into the very fabric of thought.

Earth | Life | Life | Man | Presumption | Thought | Truth |

George Santayana

The love of truth is often mentioned, the hatred of truth hardly ever, yet the latter is the commoner. People say they love the truth when they pursue it, and they pursue it when unknown: not therefore because of any felt affinity to it in their souls.

Love | People | Truth |

George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair

In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Age | Politics |

Jack Kornfield

Does the world need more medicine and energy and buildings and food? No. There is enough food and medicine, there are enough resources for all. There is starvation and poverty and widespread disease because of human ignorance, prejudice, and fear. Out of greed and hatred we hoard materials; we create wars over imaginary geographic boundaries and act as if one group of people is truly different from another group somewhere else on the planet.

Disease | Energy | Enough | Fear | Greed | Ignorance | Need | People | Poverty | Prejudice | World |

Joseph Wood Krutch

Technology made larger populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Indispensable | Technology |

Lewis Thomas

Watching television, you’d think we lived at bay, in total jeopardy, surrounded on all sides by human-seeking germs, shielded against infection and death only by a chemical technology that enables us to keep killing them off.

Death | Technology | Television | Think |

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, native form is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály

Every product of technology takes up space in the mind, and requires some investment of attention that could have been used for some other purpose.

Attention | Mind | Purpose | Purpose | Space | Technology |