This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us; they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its vast numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as a means to be converted, by the refining alchemy of education, into mental and spiritual treasures - and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.
Alchemy | Character | Education | Example | Experience | Means | Ostentation | Past | People | Power | Pride | Prosperity | Wisdom | World | Think |
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath - tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the moment.
Ostentation | Rule |
Ludwig Feuerbach, fully Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
Excellence | Man | Ostentation | Quiet | Excellence |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
A great many people do many things that seem to be inspired more by a spirit of ostentation than by heartfelt kindness… Such a pose is nearer akin to hypocrisy than to generosity or moral goodness.
Generosity | Hypocrisy | Ostentation | People | Spirit |
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
Men | Ostentation | Problems |
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
Accident | Argument | Boldness | Censure | Deliberation | Earth | Excellence | Force | Man | Morality | Ostentation | Principles | Property | Purpose | Purpose | Rest | Right | Sense | Will | Excellence | Deliberation |