Great Throughts Treasury

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Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla

A change in belief patterns takes place on the most basic level of existence.

Belief | Change | Existence | Wisdom |

Ted Kennedy, fully Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy

It strains belief to know that Neil Armstrong can walk on the moon, 250,000 miles away, but that he cannot swim in Lake Erie, a few miles from his Ohio home.

Belief | Wisdom |

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help you create the fact.

Belief | Life | Life | Will | Wisdom | Worth |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

Belief | Generosity | God | Life | Life | Man | Mortal | Poverty | Power | Rights | Wisdom | World |

Jules Janin

A woman is more responsive to a man's forgetfulness than to his attentions.

Forgetfulness | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

Okakura Kahuzo

We have an old saying in Japan that a woman cannot love a man who is truly vain, for there is no crevice in his heart for love to enter and fill up.

Heart | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman | Old |

Alphonse de Lamartine, fully Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

He is no true man who ever treats women with anything but the profoundest respect. She is no true woman who cannot inspire and does not take care to enforce this. Any real rivalry of the sexes is the sheerest folly and most unnatural nonsense.

Care | Folly | Man | Nonsense | Respect | Rivalry | Wisdom | Woman |

Andrew David Kopkind

To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win...Woman loves with her whole soul. To woman love is life, to man it is the joy of life.

Change | Enough | Hope | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Risk | Soul | Struggle | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

Belief | People | Unbelief | Wisdom |

Paulin Limayrac

The heart of a young woman in love is a golden sanctuary which often enshrines an idol of clay.

Heart | Love | Wisdom | Woman |

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Assertion | Belief | Fear | Wisdom |

Marya Mannes

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

Good | Humor | Man | Pleasure | Society | Success | Wisdom | Woman |

Jules Michelet

There is no such thing as an old woman. Any woman of any age, if she loves, if she is good, gives a man a sense of the infinite.

Age | Good | Man | Sense | Wisdom | Woman | Old |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Contentment | Wisdom | Woman |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

God | Love | Man | Mistake | Wisdom | Woman | God |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Belief | Faith | Wisdom |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

Man | Wisdom | Wishes | Woman |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love for life is still possible, only one loves differently; it is like love for a woman whom one does not trust.

Life | Life | Love | Trust | Wisdom | Woman |

Austin O'Malley

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Memory | Wisdom | Woman |