This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty. In times of adversity not one among twenty.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse the process and begin trading money for time.
Temporality and uninterruptedness express the relation of existence to time, a passive relation. What distinguishes organic from inorganic existence is the fact that the plant or the animal stands in an active and defensive relation to temporality… Life, we know from biology, is not a passive state of indifference, and inertia. The essence of life is intense care and concern.
Care | Existence | Indifference | Life | Life | Organic | Time |
The power we attain in the world of space terminates abruptly at the borderline of time. But time is the heart of existence… We cannot conquer time through space. We can only master time in time… We pass through time, we occupy space.
It is only an ethical movement which can rescue us from the slough of barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Time | Worth | Friendship |
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
The contemplation of the pious is the immediate consciousness of the universal existence of all finite things, in and through the Infinite, and of all temporal things in and through the Eternal.
Consciousness | Contemplation | Eternal | Existence | Pious | Contemplation |
As long as we look at our own existence as meaningless, there is no point whatevr in desiring to effect anything in the world.
E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher
Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything and it works.
Time |
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
This is the meaning of life - continuously to add something we haven’t know so far. That, anyway, is the meaning of all existing things. Existence is built upon the idea of the creative - that there is always something unknown to be discovered, which causes and motivates new perception, new studies, the energy to go on.