This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
A. J. Balfour, fully Arthur James "A.J. Balfour, the Earl of Balfour
Money, material thought it be, does lie at the base of the most useful work you do. In itself nothing, it is the basis of much of the best effort which can be made for spiritual purposes.
We can listen to the voice of the Earth as she shakes and sings her song expressing her tiredness. She is calling us to attention, to be alert, to recognize that now is the time to transform selfish thought and action to compassionate caretaking. Do we want a world of peace and harmony? Are we willing to make that peace within ourselves? Will we call it forth? It is your choice. Your thought and action make a difference.
Action | Attention | Choice | Earth | Harmony | Peace | Thought | Time | Will | Wisdom | World | Thought |
Unanimity is worse than censorship. Censorship obliges us to hold our own truth silent; unanimity forces us to repeat the truth of others, even thought we do not believe it… It dissolves our own personalities into a general, monotonous chorus.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality. And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
Evil | Good | Immortality | Little | Thought | Universe | Wisdom | Thought |
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
We protract the career of time by employment, we lengthen the duration of our lives by wise thoughts and useful actions. Life to him who wishes not to have lived in vain is thought and action.
Action | Life | Life | Thought | Time | Wisdom | Wise | Wishes | Thought |
We need to confine our hopes to what we can achieve in our lifetime, always mindful of the fact that the span of life is not guaranteed. The traditional saying `Live each day as thought it were your last’ should thus be adapted to `Live each day as if it could be your last, but could equally be just one more in your short life.’
Emotion may be considered the source of power that drives us forward toward our goals in life. It is through the energy of our emotions that we fuel our thought to make them real. It is in the presence of thought that our emotion is given direction, breathing life into the image of our thoughts
Emotions | Energy | Goals | Life | Life | Power | Thought | Thought |
Robert E. Carter, fully Robert Edgar Carter
Much of our ethical life is lived unthinkingly, for we do as we do by habit, custom, tradition, or because we have thought the pros and cons of similar situations. We must somehow be able to decide what is valuable at this moment while at the same time remaining open to future revisions in our valuational pattern. This willingness to revise, to be open to new possibilities of value, is for me a key to life and value enhancement.
Custom | Future | Habit | Life | Life | Thought | Time | Tradition | Thought | Value |
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice… It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: its teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien “other.” But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.
Corruption | Cowardice | Criticism | Culture | Force | Thought | Torture | Thought |
Martin D’Arcy, fully Fr. Martin Cyril D'Arcy
As the artist creates patterns in a vain effort to catch a beauty which escapes him, because it is behind his thought and never realized in what he sees, so the love of God beckons and draws the soul of man, though he has never heard the sacred Name.
Beauty | Effort | God | Love | Man | Sacred | Soul | Thought | Beauty | God | Thought |