This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
When one has too many answers, and when on ejoins a chorus of others chanting the same slogans, there is, it seems to me, a danger that one is trying to evade the loneliness of a conscience that realizes itself to be in an inescapably evil situation. We are under judgment.
Conscience | Danger | Evil | Judgment | Loneliness | Danger |
Charles De Montesquieu, formally Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
People who are dying simply see more clearly what has always been true: We are in the perpetual care of others. They are grateful for any and all kindnesses, and they do not take the generosity of others for granted.
Care | Generosity | People |
What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us. What we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal.
World |
People who like themselves and realize that they are God’s creation, are never really lonely. It is only when we lose track of our own value, and our personal connection with the divine, that we are desperate for others to distract us from our loss.
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
He who wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue; then others can imitate and, at the same time, rise above the one being imitated – something which people love.
Example | Good | Love | People | Time | Virtue | Virtue | Wants |
Randy Pausch, fully Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch
Pay it forward. Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.
Believe nothing against another but upon good Authority: Nor report what may hurt another, unless it e a greater hurt to others to conceal it.
Children do not extract meaning from what they hear others saying; they try, instead, to relate what has been said to what is going on.
In God knowledge is infinite; in others it is only a germ.
Close that gate of thy heart by which others enters, for thy heart is My temple. Stand watchful over the closing, and remain in it, until thou meetest.
Heart |
Mozi or Mo-tze, Mocius or Mo-tzu, original name Mo Di, aka Master Mo NULL
Universal love… means that one makes no distinction between the state of others and one’s own; none between the houses of other and one’s own; none between the other person and oneself.
Distinction | Love | Means |
What one decides to do in a crisis depends upon one’s philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn’t any philosophy in a crisis, others make the decision.
Decision | Life | Life | Philosophy | Crisis |
Jules Renard, aka Pierre-Jules Renard
It is not enough to be happy: It is also necessary that others not be.
The oppressor must have the cooperation of the oppressed, of those he must feel better than. The oppressed and the damned are placed in an inferior position by force of arms, physical strength, and later, by threats of such force. But the long-time maintenance of power over others is secured by psychological manipulation and seduction.
Better | Cooperation | Force | Position | Power | Strength | Time |
Since everything that comes into the human minds enters through the gates of sense, man’s first reason is a reason of sense-experience. It is this that serves as a foundation for the reason of the intelligence; our first teachers in natural philosophy are our feet, hands, and eyes. To substitute books for them does not teach us to reason, it teaches us to use the reason of others rather than our own; it teaches us to believe much and know little.
Books | Experience | Intelligence | Little | Man | Philosophy | Reason | Sense | Teach |
Dean Rusk, fully David Dean Rusk
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears – by listening to them.
A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent.