This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
If you stand a lantern under a tree every insect in the forest creeps up to it—a curious assembly, since though they scramble and swing and knock their heads against the glass, they seem to have no purpose—something senseless inspires them. One gets tired of watching them, as they amble round the lantern and blindly tap as if for admittance, one large toad being the most besotted of any and shouldering his way through the rest. Ah, but what's that? A terrifying volley of pistol-shots rings out—cracks sharply; ripples spread— silence laps smooth over sound. A tree—a tree has fallen, a sort of death in the forest. After that, the wind in the trees sounds melancholy.
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
Violence must be put down! against cruelty make a stand, ye who would make sure of the reward of Good Thought through Right, to whose company the holy man belongs. His dwelling place shall be in thy House, O Ahura.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Art | Experience | Man | Marriage | Mind | Sense | Woman | Art |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
May that 'divine knowledgeable person'(almighty) inspire us! One, without whose inspiration one can never attain total knowledge.
From his navel arose the air; from his head the heaven evolved; from his feet the earth; the [four] directions from his ear. Thus, they fashioned the worlds.
Accomplishment | Will | Work | Intellect |
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.
Death | Enjoyment | Existence | Fate | Fulfillment | Giving | Life | Life | Man | Meaning | Opportunity | Purpose | Purpose | Suffering | Fate |
May there be unison in the speech and action of humans. Only by this shall, unity emerge and serve each others’ purpose. The nation shall emerge stronger and mightier because of this.
We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. But when we do, the shock is violent, and we are compelled to choose sides, for or against... Death belongs to God alone.
Everybody likes to befriend a Soft spoken person. Therefore one should always speak good of others and be soft spoken.
Intelligence | Power | Intellect |
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.
Beginning | Behavior | Instinct | Man | People | Tradition | Wishes | Loss |
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
These words frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. It can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement.
A devotee, who spends his time in austerities has nothing to worry about as God fulfills all his needs.
Enlightenment | Knowledge | Intellect |