Great Throughts Treasury

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Vivekananda, fully Sri or Swami Vivekananda, born Narendra Nath Datta NULL

I do not understand how people declare themselves to be believers in God, and at the same time think that God has handed over to a little body of man all truth, and that they are guardians of the rest of humanity.

Body | God | Humanity | Little | Man | People | Rest | Time | Truth | God | Think | Understand |

Herman E. Daly

Now that the United States and the rest of humanity have begun to confront the natural limits to our resources, we are in need of a new vision - a vision of a sustainable economy.

Humanity | Need | Rest | Vision |

Charles Dederich

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Day | Life | Life | Rest |

Albert Einstein

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

Authority | Confidence | Fear | Force | Self | Self-confidence | Sincerity | Sound | Work |

Kristen Renwick Monroe

Where the rest of us see a stranger, altruists see a fellow human being.

Rest |

Aaron Copland

The simplest way of listening to music is to listen for the sheer pleasure of the musical sound itself.

Listening | Music | Pleasure | Sound |

Abraham Harold Maslow

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Life | Life | Plan | Rest |

Agnes George de Mille

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Destiny | Important | Life | Life | Sound |

Albert Camus

We are all special cases. We all want to appeal to something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

Heaven | Human race | Innocence | Means | Race | Rest |