This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
Despair | Industry | Purpose | Purpose | Self | Self-denial | World | Worth |
G. M. Trevelyan, fully George Macaulay Trevelyan
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Distinguish | Education | Reading | Worth |
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
History | Ideas | Television | Worth |
There is only one philosophical problem that is really serious, and that is suicide. To decide whether life is worth living or not is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question in philosophy.
The riddle of the universe is not so simple. There is the aspect of permanence in which a given type of attainment is endlessly repeated for its own sake; and there is the aspect of transition to other things - it may be of higher worth and it may be of lower worth. Also there are aspects of struggle and of friendly help. But romantic ruthlessness is no nearer to real politics, than is romantic self-abnegation.
Attainment | Politics | Ruthlessness | Self | Struggle | Universe | Worth |
Arthur C Clarke, formally Sir Arthur Charles Clark
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.