This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The mere observing of a thing is no use whatsoever. Observing turns into beholding, beholding to thinking, thinking into establishing connections, so that one may say that every attentive glance we cast on the world is an act of theorizing. However, this ought to be done consciously, with self-criticism, with freedom, and, to use a daring word, with irony.
Criticism | Daring | Freedom | Irony | Self | Thinking | Wisdom | World |
What thing was the most swiftest in the world? Mans minde, because in a moment of time it discurres all things.
Lawren Harris, fully Lawren Stewart Harris
A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
Wisdom |
Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.
Aspiration | Heart | Nothing | Reason | Religion | Silence | Soul | Wisdom | Aspiration |
Humor results from the contrast between a thing as it is and a thing smashed out of shape, as it ought not to be.
A great man is a gift, in some measure of a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates.
Earth | Ends | God | History | Man | Men | Revelation | Wisdom | Value |
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.