Great Throughts Treasury

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I thought I paid for everything. Not like women, pay and pay and pay. There is not a reward or punishment. Just exchange of values. Something comparable to, and in return you get something else. Or work for the sake of something. Anyway after all, at least partially good pay. Much of what I was paying, like me, and I had a good time. You pay either the knowledge or experience, or risk, or money. Enjoy life is nothing like the ability to get something equivalent expended money and realize it. And to get the full price for your money you can. Our world - a solid company. Excellent as a theory. In five years, I thought, it seems to me the same stupid, like all my other superior theory.

Good | Joy | Life | Life | Money | Order | Reward | Thought | Work | World | Worth | Learn | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

Fighting | Hate | World | Worth |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Chance | Enough | Knowing | Thinking | Time | World | Think |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick.

Earth | Nothing | Wonder | World | Afraid |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people.

Earth | Nothing | Wonder | World | Afraid |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

World |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

Our personal life is a hundred times finer, longer, and more valuable than that of the savage, because it is a hundred times richer in interests, experiences, and pleasures.

World |

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

To mention these things, no doubt, means laying oneself open to the charge of being against science, technology, and progress. Let me therefore, in conclusion, add a few words about future scientific research. Man cannot live without science and technology any more than he can live against nature.

Better | Experience | Nothing | Problems | Question | Technology | World |

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

What we have today, in modern industrial society, is not romantic and certainly not utopianÂ…But it is in very deep trouble and holds no promise of survival. We jolly well have to have the courage to dream if we want to survive and give our children a chance of survival.

Education | Metaphysics | Present | Soul | World | Understand |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.

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

It is true that all men are brothers, but it is also true that in our active personal relationships we can, in fact, be brothers to only a few of them, and we are called upon to show more brotherliness to them than we could possibly show to the whole of mankind.

Life | Life | Position | World |

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

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Children | Present | Society | World | Society |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Technology which enables us to control the nature remember that the revolution is important that each of us individually is important, above all else, be able always a sense of injustice suffered by any person whatever the size of this injustice and whatever the place This man this is the most beautiful characterized by revolutionary goodbye forever, O my children, although I still hope to see you again to all of you a great big kiss and a large bosom large Papa.

World |

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

An expansion of man's ability to bring forth secondary products is useless unless preceded by an expansion of his ability to win primary products from the earth; for man is not a producer but only a converter, and for every job of conversion he needs primary products.

Effort | Existence | Experience | Simplicity | Technology |

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

TheÂ… crisis of which I have spoken will not go away if we simply carry on as before. It will become worse and end in disaster, until or unless we develop a new life-style which is compatible with the real needs of human nature, with the health of living nature around us, and with the resource endowment of the world.

Experience | Ideas | World |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Many people were killed in the long road to victory.

Change | World |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individuality and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.

Spirit | World |

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

It is necessary, therefore, that at least an important part of the development effort should by-pass the big cities and be directly concerned with the creation of an "agro-industrial structure" in the rural and small-town areas.

Growth | Power | World |

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

The illusion of unlimited powers, nourished by astonishing scientific and technological achievements, has produced the concurrent illusion of having solved the problem of production. The latter illusion is based on the failure to distinguish between income and capital where this distinction matters most. Every economist and businessman is familiar with the distinction, and applies it conscientiously and with considerable subtlety to all economic affairs – except where it really matters: namely, the irreplaceable capital which man has not made, but simply found, and without which he can do nothing.

Heart | Poverty | World |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Antithesis | Courage | Desire | Faith | Knowledge | Man | Men | Mind | Nature | Purpose | Purpose | Reality | Religion | Soul | Thinking | World |