This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Every desire for power, ability, wisdom, harmony, life, greatness will impress itself upon the subconscious and will cause the thing desired to be produced in the great within. What is produced in the within will come forth into expression in the personality; therefore, by knowing how to impress the subconscious, man may give his personal self any quality desired, in any quantity desired. What man may desire to become, that he can become, and the art of directing and impressing the subconscious is the secret. The perpetual awakening of the great within will produce a greatness, because to the powers and the possibilities of the great within there is no limit, neither is there any end.
Ability | Art | Awakening | Cause | Character | Desire | Greatness | Harmony | Knowing | Life | Life | Man | Personality | Power | Self | Will | Wisdom | Art |
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Character | Love | Perfection | Truth | World |
Great men... have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and his decay.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It is an absolute perfection to know how to get the very most out of one's individuality.
Absolute | Character | Individuality | Perfection |
Luxury is a remedy much worse than the disease it sets up to cure; or rather it is in itself the greatness of all evils; for every State, great or small: for, in order to maintain all the servants and vagabonds it creates, it brings oppression and ruin on the citizen and the laborer; it is like those scorching winds, which, covering the trees and plants with their devouring insects, deprive useful animals of their subsistence and spread famine and death wherever they blow.
Character | Death | Disease | Greatness | Luxury | Oppression | Order |
Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
The perfection of virtue is from... long art and management, self-control.
Art | Character | Control | Perfection | Self | Self-control | Virtue | Virtue | Art |
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Immortality is the greatness of our being; the scene for attaining the fullness and perfection of our existence.
Character | Existence | Greatness | Immortality | Perfection |