This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Stupidity hurts, while intelligence does not hurt.
A social deformity perhaps still more hideous than the evil rich: the evil poor
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Vast horizons lead the soul to general ideas; circumscribed horizons engender one-sided ideas.... General ideas are hated by one-sided minds: such is the struggle for progress.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Move ahead. Give proper Nourishment to the body. May your hands,legs and body not be destroyed by death.
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.... Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies.
Enough | Ideas | Knowledge | Law | Respect | Society | Theories | Society | Respect |
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Aid | Future | Government | Law | Nothing | People | Government | Child |
The main thing is, it seems to me, that these revolutionary changes will enable us to escape from the rather antiquated straitjacket of this bipolar view of the world, and to enter at last into an era of multi-polarity. That is, into an era in which all of us, large and small, former slaves and former masters, will be able to create what your great President Lincoln called the family of man
Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
Self-love fools man with false opinion that earth, air, water, fire, the stars we see, though stronger and more beautiful than we, feel nought, love not, but move for us alone.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.