This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
Value |
The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thy Self. Always act so as to elicit the best in others, and thereby oneself. Always act so as to elicit the best in others, and thereby one's Self. Always act so as to elicit the best in others, and thereby in yourself. Act so as to encourage the best in others and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.
The symbols of religion are ciphers of which the key is to be found in moral experience. It is in vain we pore over the ciphers unless we possess the key.
Will |
The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.
Grave |
Clich‚s, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Action |
Power corrupts... when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. The will to power... far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one.
Substance is not enough, accident is also required.