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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Beverly Rubik

[Paraphrase from “Brain and Mind” article] “Local” healing reflects information from subtle bioenergy fields. By contrast, healing that appears non-local in space and time may be mediated by “information associated with conscious intention”... In electromagnetic healing... the living human organism contains many highly sensitive natural oscillators that join to form a collective “biofield.” This field is “a collective property of the organism and cannot be reduced to biomolecular events.” In this case, information is transmitted by external fields of similar frequency, with healing occurring through a “tuning” effect... “Information is about relationship and exists only in relationship.” Therefore, information grounded in love - “the highest-quality relationship” - may produce healing by overcoming information originated from the more mechanical levels of physical organization... “For science and medicine to embrace life’s full capacity and the full human potential we need to go beyond mechanical concepts that were developed for machines.”

Capacity | Contrast | Events | Intention | Life | Life | Love | Machines | Mind | Need | Organization | Property | Relationship | Science | Space | Time | Wisdom |

Samuel Rutherford

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.

God | Heart | Lord | Wisdom | Wonder | God | Child |

Lydia Sigourney, fully Lydia Huntley Sigourney, née Lydia Howard Huntley

"Keep aloof from sadness," says an Icelandic writer, "for sadness is a sickness of the soul." Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.

Good | Life | Life | Mind | Misfortune | Object | Sadness | Smile | Soul | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is a great mistake of many ardent students that they trust too much to their books, and do not draw from their own resources - forgetting that of all sophists our own reason is that which abuses us least.

Books | Mistake | Reason | Trust | Wisdom |

Artur Schnabel

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. but the pauses between the notes, ah, that is where the art resides!

Art | Better | Wisdom | Art |

Nathalie Sarraute, fully Nathalie Tcherniak Sarraute

Today, thanks to technical progress, the radio and television, to which we devote so many of the leisure hours once spent listening to parlor chatter and parlor music, have succeeded in lifting the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Industry | Leisure | Listening | Music | Progress | Television | Wisdom |

Aye Saung

You can measure your life’s worth by how many people you serve... All must work for their fellow human beings. Without that, the meaning of life is not fulfilled. Working for other people is the value of life.

Life | Life | Meaning | People | Wisdom | Work | Worth | Value |

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful to the community in so doing. Reverence for life does not permit the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many by its means... Reverence for life demands for all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Art | Inspiration | Life | Life | Means | Reverence | Sacrifice | Scholar | Science | Wisdom |

William Gilmore Simms

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent o itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

Absence | Tact | Will | Wisdom | Talent |

Richard Smolowe, fully Richard Edward Smolowe

Thoughts are behavior. The mind is like a muscle which can be improved with practice. Many 'habits' are a result of poor thinking skills. We play thoughts over and over which keep us distracted from effective problem solving. When out-of-control thoughts run around inside our heads they cause anxiety. We then focus on unproductive thoughts and ideas.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Behavior | Cause | Control | Focus | Ideas | Mind | Play | Practice | Thinking | Wisdom |

Jane Taylor

Though a man a thinking being is defined, few use the grand prerogative of the mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think who think they do!

Man | Mind | Thinking | Wisdom | Think |

Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.

Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

Important | Security | Wisdom |

Edward Stillingfleet

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

Honesty | Sincerity | Wisdom |

William Howard Taft

Too many people do not card what happens as long as it does not happen to them.

People | Wisdom |

Jeremy Taylor

A good wife is heaven’s last, best gift to man - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faithful counselors, her bosom the softest pillow of his care.

Care | Day | Good | Heaven | Industry | Innocence | Man | Music | Wealth | Wife | Wisdom |