This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Idleness is the badge of the gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and, if it is not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy.
Body | Business | Cause | Devil | Discipline | Idleness | Melancholy | Mind |
Invention in language should no more be discouraged than should invention in mechanics. Grammar is the grave of letters.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Who thinks to live must live to think, else mind and body lose their link.
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.
It is through uneasiness that all habits of mind and body are born.
Cleanness of the body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
This world, sir, is very clearly a place of torment and penance, a place where the fool flourishes and the good and wise are hated and persecuted, a place where men and women torture one another in the name of love; where children are scourged and enslaved in the name of parental duty and education; where the weak in body are poisoned and mutilated in the name of healing.
Body | Children | Duty | Education | Good | Love | Men | Torture | Wise | World |
No body of men can be induced to do another man’s killing for him unless he can convince them that they may honorably do so. The percentage of blackguards and sadists who enjoy cruelty for its own sake have to pretend that they are patriots and ministers of justice to secure the toleration of their fellow citizens.
Body | Cruelty | Justice | Man | Men | Toleration | Cruelty |
Galileo Galilei, known simply as Galileo
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
God | Language | Mathematics | Universe | God |
George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
A dramatic centre of action and passion… utterly unlike what in modern philosophy we call consciousness. The soul causes the body to grow, to assume its ancestral shape, to develop all its ancestral instincts, to wake and to sleep by turns… and at the same time determines the responses that the living body shall make to the world.
Action | Body | Consciousness | Passion | Philosophy | Soul | Time | World |
George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Aims | Enemy | Insincerity | Language | Words |
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit; they lapse only when the corporeal frame that sustains them yields to circumstances and changes its habit.