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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Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

I do not care where and when to die as much as I'd stay home.

Death | Right |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.

Battle | Death |

Ernst Toller

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Death | Man | Mourning |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

You cannot receive vibrationally something that you are not a vibrational match to. And so, bless those who are finding abundance. And in your blessing of them and their abundance, you will become abundant too.

Awareness | Death | Experience | Good | Joy | Life | Life | Plenty | Promise | Awareness | Value |

Estonian Proverbs

When God gives a child, he also gives the clothing.

Death | Man | Money |

Etty Hillesum, formally Ester "Etty" Hillesum

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Death | Impulse | Nothing | Space |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Even over cold pudding, the coward says: It will burn my mouth.

Death |

Eugene Peterson

Song and dance are the result of an excess energy. When we are normal we talk, when we are dying we whisper, but when there is more in us than we contain we sing. When we are healthy we walk, when we are decrepit we shuffle, but when we are beyond ourselves with vitality we dance.

Death | Neutrality | Will |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

I hate doctors! They'll do anything — anything to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls! What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell!

Death |

Eugene Peterson

We survive in the way of faith not because we have extraordinary stamina but because God sticks with us.

Birth | Death | Understanding | Will |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.

Death | Equanimity | Eternal | Evil | Fear | Grace | Life | Life | Men | Reward | Will |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

Darkness | Death | Defeat | Earth | Failure | Hope | Life | Life | Light | Love | Mystery | Nothing | Power | Reading | Sadness | Will | Failure |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery.

Abundance | Death | Fault | Labor | People | Poverty | Struggle | System | Youth | Youth | Child | Fault | Old |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

Apparently, "conspiracy stuff" is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

Death | Harmony | Life | Life | Love |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

Age | Death | Thinking |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

The Republican and Democratic parties are alike capitalist parties — differing only in being committed to different sets of capitalist interests — they have the same principles under varying colors, are equally corrupt and are one in their subservience to capital and their hostility to labor.

Birth | Death | Means |

Euripedes NULL

Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.

Death | Life | Life |

Euripedes NULL

Who knows that 'tis not life which we call death, and death our life on earth?

Death | Life | Life | Men |

Euripedes NULL

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Abuse | Age | Death | Lying | Old age | Old |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house.

Cause | Death | Life | Life | Man | People | Public |