This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Julian Huxley, fully Sir Julian Sorell Huxley
Any conflict which prevents the personality from attaining wholeness is a hindrance: all taboos against considering any part of the universe in relation to man and his destiny are hindrances; so, too, are all restrictions upon the free use of reason, or the free appeal of conscience. In other words, any religion which is not an affirmation of the ultimate value of truth and knowledge, beauty and its expression, and goodness and moral action, which ever sets itself up against these, is in that respect a false, low and incomplete religion.
Action | Beauty | Conscience | Destiny | Knowledge | Man | Personality | Reason | Religion | Respect | Truth | Universe | Wholeness | Words | Respect | Beauty | Value |
Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze
The highest good is like that of the water. The goodness of water is that it benefits the ten thousand creatures, yet itself does not scramble, but is content with the places that all men disdain.
Deity cannot be understood through a knowledge of timeless qualities of goodness and perfection, but only by sensing the living acts of God’s concern and his dynamic attentiveness in relation to man, who is the passionate object of his interest.
Attentiveness | Dynamic | God | Knowledge | Man | Object | Perfection | Qualities |
No matter how many times you have wronged or hurt by others, all it takes is one act of kindness to make you believe in the goodness that exists in the world.
When our wills are united with the will of God, we never take all the goodness and beauty and people and things in life for granted, but we accept them again and again as a gift from him – given that we may serve him with still greater joy and thank him for it.
Beauty | God | Joy | Life | Life | People | Will | Wills | Beauty |
Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
Greatness | Simplicity | Truth |
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
Harry Jack Gray, born Harry Jack Grusin
No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.
I've found that people who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Religion | Righteousness | Soul |