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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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

The earth is for all the people. That is the demand.

Control | Industry |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

Books | Literature | Nothing | Writing | Learn | Teacher |

Eustace Budgell

In short, a private education seems the most natural method for the forming of a virtuous man; a public education for making a man of business. The first would furnish out a good subject for PlatoÂ’s republic, the latter a member for a community overrun with artifice and corruption.

Education | Means | Men | Nothing | Order | Reason | Service | Temper | Think |

Euripedes NULL

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Eustace Budgell

It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

Care | Hazard | Innocence | Little | Man | Manners | Nothing | Public | Virtue | Virtue | Think | Value |

Eugenio Montale

I do not know how exhausted you resist | in this lake indifference LORD thy heart; maybe you save an amulet that you keep close your lipstick, to down, to file: a white rat,d 'ivory, and so exist!

Poetry | Search |

Eustace Budgell

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship, which always is imperfect where either of these two is wanting.

Envy | Esteem | Man | Nothing | Observation | Search | Will |

Euripedes NULL

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

Man | Oblivion |

Evelyn Underhill

Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality, with all its difficulties, opportunities, and implications. The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.

Good | Thinking |

Evelyn Underhill

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

Curiosity | Heart | Love | Search |

Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

Balance | Think |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.

Church | Right | Talking |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Events |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Speech | World | Think |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Art | History | Important | Little | Purpose | Purpose | Art |