This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Expectation | Future | Expectation |
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Why, you ask, do we see evil doers thriving and healthy and enjoying great prosperity? Let us weep for them, because they’re not having to suffer in this world is a guarantee of greater punishment in the next! To show this, St. Paul said, ‘But when we are judged, we are being chastised by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with this world. Afflictions here are a form of reproof, while this in the other world are a form of punishment for those who were evil in their lives.’
Children | Expectation | Fear | Good | Hell | Reason | Receive | Soul | Thought | Will | Youth | Youth | Expectation | Learn | Old | Thought |
Many who are very just in their dealings between man and man will yet be very fraudulent or rapacious with regard to the public.
Expectation | God | Life | Life | Mind | Opposition | Reality | Reward | Truth | God | Expectation |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
We must consider how very little history there is; I mean real, authentic history. - That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend on as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy of history is conjecture.
Expectation | Love | Expectation |
Every child is musical. Unfortunately this natural gift is squelched before it has time to develop. From my all life experience I remember being laughed at because my voice and the words I sang didn't please someone. My second grade teacher, Miss Stone would not let me sing with the rest of the class because she judged my voice as not musical and she said I threw the class off key. I believed her which led to the blockage of my appreciation of music and blocked my ability to write poetry. Fortunately at the age of 57 I had a significant emotional event which unblocked my ability to composed poetry which many people believe have lyrical qualities.
Awareness | Behavior | Better | Choice | Consequences | Expectation | Giving | Important | Opportunity | People | Reason | Receive | Will | Awareness | Expectation |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction … One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly from his wishes for happiness—that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.
Belief | Expectation | Right | Rule | Expectation |
Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
The day that you can love the woman in their entirety, in its weakness, not to escape herself but to find, not to resign but to say that day love will become for her. As for man, source of life and not mortal danger.
Day | Expectation | Journey | Expectation |
They have this absurd notion that something that occurs in the past and that is not subject to direct observation is not provable. That's nonsense .... There is a mystery as to how evolution occurs, but there is not a whole lot of doubt as to whether it occurs.
Change | Evolution | Expectation | History | Life | Life | Light | Progress | Story | Time | Expectation |
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement,
Aesthetic | Body | Expectation | Famous | Looks | Progress | Search | Expectation |
If one small and odd lineage of fishes had not evolved fins capable of bearing weight on land (though evolved for different reasons in lakes and seas,) terrestrial vertebrates would never have arisen. If a large extraterrestrial object—the ultimate random bolt from the blue—had not triggered the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals would still be small creatures, confined to the nooks and crannies of a dinosaur's world, and incapable of evolving the larger size that brains big enough for self-consciousness require. If a small and tenuous population of protohumans had not survived a hundred slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (and potential extinction) on the savannas of Africa, then Homo sapiens would never have emerged to spread throughout the globe. We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
United yet divided, twain at once: so sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.
Expectation | Security | Expectation |
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
Expectation | Life | Life | Prediction | World | Worth | Expectation |
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
Expectation | Right | Expectation | Old |
A good title should be like a good metaphor: it should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
Expectation | Good | Expectation |
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.
Expectation | Peace | Expectation | Happiness |
As yet, we Americans have hardly begun to think of the details of execution in any art. We do not aim at perfection of detail even in engineering, much less in literature. In the haste of our national life, most of our intellectual work is done at a rush, is something inserted in the odd moments of the engrossing pursuit. The popular preacher becomes a novelist; the editor turns his paste-pot and scissors to the compilation of a history; the same man must be poet, wit, philanthropist, and genealogist. We find a sort of pleasure in seeing this variety of effort, just as the bystanders like to see a street-musician adjust every joint in his body to a separate instrument, and play a concerted piece with the whole of himself. To be sure, he plays each part badly, but it is such a wonder he should play them all! Thus, in our rather hurried and helter-skelter training, the man is brilliant, perhaps; his main work is well done; but his secondary work is slurred. The book sells, no doubt, by reason of the author’s popularity in other fields; it is only the tone of our national literature that suffers. There is nothing in American life that can make concentration cease to be a virtue. Let a man choose his pursuit, and make all else count for recreation only. Goethe’s advice to Eckermann is infinitely more important here than it ever was in Germany: “Beware of dissipating your power; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.”
Daring | Emotions | Expectation | Intuition | Language | Life | Life | Passion | Sound | Expectation |
Everything in... nature, is descended out that which is eternal, and stands as a... visible outbirth of it, so when we know how to separate out the grossness, death, and darkness... from it, we find... it in its eternal state.
Evil | Expectation | Experience | God | Nature | Nothing | Opposition | Rebellion | Trust | Will | God | Expectation |
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do... The smallest thing well done, becomes artistic.
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind and makes it fearful and degenerate.
Despair | Ends | Expectation | Hope | Expectation |
The entire Universe is set up to produce wanting within you. You cannot squelch wanting. You are born wanters. Wanting is a good thing.
Desire | Expectation | Expectation |