Great Throughts Treasury

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Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Of him that sits, and him that walks, of him that stands and looks about, of these the eyes we do shut, just as these premises (are shut).

Children | Love | Nations |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

In peace and poise, they remain detached; in peace and poise, they laugh. In peace and poise, they remain silent; in peace and poise, they chant.

Body | Life | Life | Mind | Order | Blessed |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

May our friends be dear to us. May those who hate us, end up in darkness of ignorance.

Body |

Yajur Veda, or Yajurveda

A man should tread on the path of truth for not only his own but for the benediction of entire humanity.

Body | Mind | Sound | Success |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The nature of Sun is to shed light, that of the water is to flow and of the air to dry up . These are the 'vows' of some of the external gods which Indra helps execute.

Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.

The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to End Poverty in California I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.

Cause | Children | Family |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

As you can see, arenas, an act is not, as young people often think, like a stone, someone lifts and throws, and it succeeds or fails, that's all. When you lift this rock, the earth becomes lighter and hand to bear it becomes heavier. When you fly, the circuits of the stars respond, and where hit or falls the universe is changed. With each act of compromising the overall balance. The winds and seas, the forces of water, soil and light, animals and plants, and everything they do is good and correct us make. Because all of them act in the balance. Since the hurricane and the blare of the great whales, until the dried drop one sex and the flying gnats: it's all done with a view to balance the total. But we, to the extent that we have dominion over the universe and the one over the other, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do by their nature. We must learn to maintain balance. Once you have intelligence, you should not act out of ignorance. After you have choices, you should not behave irresponsibly.

Children | Imagination |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Children | Revolution |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Children | Need | Plenty | Smile | Think |

Valmiki NULL

Just as people are afraid of serpents they are afraid of persons who utter lies.

Children | Debt | Father | Mother |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high production and rapid transportation of goods. However vast the distances separating settlements, they held to the ideal of complex organicism.

Children | Despair | Evil | Happy | Pain | People | Praise | Treason | Trouble | Happiness |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Children | Dependence | Energy | Glory | Judgment | Love | Memory | Mind | Order | Success | Teach | Truth |

Vannevar Bush

The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge — and for most of its application — rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it.

Knowledge | Problems | Research | Truth | Will |

Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella

Man is not born crowned like the natural king of beasts, for beasts by this investiture have need to know the head they must obey.

Care | Children | Earth | Education | Love | Men | Neglect |

Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella

With the right foot they turn the horse to the left, and with the left to the right. This secret, moreover, is not known to the Tartars.

Children | Knowledge | Time | Child |

Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Joy |

Tryon Edwards

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

Children | Education | Little | Men |

Turkish Proverbs

One who handles honey, licks his fingers. (Meaning: Somebody in charge of handling money or resources, get to keep or enjoy some benefits for himself.)

Children | Discipline | Will | Learn |

Turkish Proverbs

He who has to be hanged, will not drown.

Children |

Turkish Proverbs

A sheik's miracles are of his own telling.

Man |