This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry... "Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry the same as "determining parallelism," a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.
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Somewhat influenced by Aristotelian physics, he [Augustine] holds that the end of all movement is rest, and now he understands the emotions - the motions of the soul - in analogy to the movements of the physical world. For ?nothing else do bodies desire by their weight than what souls desire by their love.? Hence, in the Confessions: ?My weight is my love; by it I am borne whithersoever I am born.? The soul?s gravity, the essence of who somebody is, and which as such is inscrutable to human eyes, becomes manifest in this love.
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One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.
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The gardener's dog does not eat lettuce and will not let others eat it.
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The fox advised the others to cut off their tails, because he had left his own in the trap.
Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.
Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.
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No one ever became poor through giving alms.