This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing.—Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for Christian charity.—More than this may or may not be a blessing.—Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.
Rosa Luxemburg, aka Rosalia Luxemburg, "Bloody Rosa"
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
Future | Pride | Revolution | Strength | Tomorrow | Will | Leadership |
Rudolf Steiner, fully Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner
A nervous, that is to say excitable child should be treated differently as regards environment from one who is quiet and lethargic. everything comes into consideration, from the color of the room and various objects that are generally around the child, to the color of the clothes in which he is dressed...An excitable child should be surrounded by and dressed in red and reddish-yellow colors, whereas for a lethargic child one should have recourse to the blue or bluish-green shades of color. For the important thing is the complimentary color, which is created within the child. In the case of red it is green, and in the case of blue orange-yellow
Life | Life | Reflection | Virtue | Virtue |
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The Beloved - One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked. A voice asked: 'Who is there?' He answered: 'It is I.' The voice said: 'There is no room here for me and thee.' The door was shut. After a year of solitude and deprivation this man returned to the door of the Beloved. He knocked. A voice from within asked: 'Who is there?' The man said: 'It is Thou.' The door was opened for him.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
You're sitting here with us, but you're also out walking in a field at dawn. You are yourself the animal we hunt when you come with us on the hunt. You're in your body like a plant is solid in the ground, yet you're wind. You're the diver's clothes lying empty on the beach. You're the fish. In the ocean are many bright strands and many dark strands like veins that are seen when a wing is lifted up. Your hidden self is blood in those, those veins that are lute strings that make ocean music, not the sad sound of surf, but the sound of no shore.
Ruth Benedict, born Ruth Fulton
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.
Sacha Guitry, fully Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry
When you listen to Mozart, the silence that follows is still Mozart.
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to — no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, 'I am not He, but He made me'.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Wherever there are three persons, even though they are laymen, there is the church. Every man lives by his own faith, and God does not distinguish between classes. Since, in cases of necessity, you have the right to act as a priest, then you must also accept priestly discipline. It is God's will that all of us should be in the right spiritual state, at any time or place, to administer His sacraments.
Affliction | God | Gold | Good | Man | Men | Virtue | Virtue | God | Vice |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, without anxiety; repentest, yet grievest not; art angry, yet serene; changest Thy works, Thy purpose unchanged; receivest again what Thou findest, yet didst never lose; never in need, yet rejoicing in gains; never covetous, yet exacting usury. Thou receivest over and above, that Thou mayest owe; and who hath aught that is not Thine? Thou payest debts, owing nothing; remittest debts, losing nothing. And that have I now said, my God, my life, my holy joy? or what saith any man when he speaks of Thee? Yet woe to him that speaketh not, since mute are even the most eloquent.
Desire | Good | Life | Life | Light | Lust | Mercy | Pride | Rest | Forgive |
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
Those who do not wish to taste how sweet the Lord is and love the darkness rather than the light (Jn. 3:19), not wishing to fulfill the commands of God, are cursed: of them the prophet says: They are cursed who stray from your commands (Ps. 118:21). But Oh, how happy and blessed are those who love God and do as the Lord Himself says in the Gospel: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself (Mt. 22:37, 39).
Fear | Humility | Little | Lord | Love | Peace | Pride | Prudence | Prudence | Religion | Reward | Spirit | Wisdom | Wishes | World |