This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
No one can change himself beyond his life, hereafter, beyond his Time, but only within his life. His attainment of unity is something that must belong to his life, this life, that is himself; and if we can equate unity and ‘eternal life’, it is something that cannot life in some ‘tomorrow’ or ‘hereafter’ beyond a man’s life. Its possibilities belong to us now, to something we have to do now. It is this life that must be worked upon, be made more real, by separating the false by insight.
Attainment | Change | Character | Eternal | Insight | Life | Life | Man | Time | Tomorrow | Unity |
'Tis not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies.
In the destiny of every moral being there is an object more worthy of God than happiness. It is character. And the grand aim of man's creation is the development of grand character - and grand character is, by its very nature, the product of probationary discipline.
Character | Destiny | Discipline | God | Man | Nature | Object | God |
Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
The perfection of virtue is from... long art and management, self-control.
Art | Character | Control | Perfection | Self | Self-control | Virtue | Virtue | Art |
Immortality is the greatness of our being; the scene for attaining the fullness and perfection of our existence.
Character | Existence | Greatness | Immortality | Perfection |
Brooks Atkinson, fully Justin Brooks Atkinson
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
Absolute | Achievement | Justice | Logic | Man | Men | Perfection | Purity | Wisdom |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
Imperfection | Man | Perfection | Wisdom |
Michelangelo, aka Michaelangelo Buonarroti, fully Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni NULL
Trifles make perfection; but perfection is no trifle.
Perfection | Trifles | Wisdom |
Yamada Koun Zenshin, or Koun Yamada or Yamada Roshi
The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.
Character | Perfection | Purpose | Purpose | Zen |