This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.
Character | Devotion | Life | Life | Man | Need | Purpose | Purpose |
To crave more than you need - that is poverty.
The savage lives within himself, while social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the consciousness of his own existence merely from the judgment of others concerning him.
Character | Consciousness | Existence | Judgment | Man | Opinion | Receive |