This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Like any other major experience, illness actually changes us. How? Well for one thing we are temporarily relieved from the pressure of meeting the world head on. We enter a world of introspection and self-analysis. We think soberly, perhaps for the first time, about our past and future. Illness gives us that rarest thing in the world--a second chance, not only at health, but at life itself!
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
The medical establishment, focusing on pathology and chemical treatment by drugs, has long equated diet with what’s put on hospital trays. Even today, when five of America’s major health problems – heart, liver, cancer, diabetes and cerebrovascular diseases – have been proved to be related to diet, just 23 percent of American medical schools require a course in nutrition, and many offer none.
The noblest quality and highest in rank of all human activities is philosophy… The philosopher’s aim is his theoretical studies is to ascertain the truth; in his practical knowledge, to conduct himself in accordance with that truth.
Conduct | Knowledge | Philosophy | Rank | Truth | Theoretical |
There are two benefits, of which the generality of men are losers, and of which they do not know the value, health and leisure.
Thomas Lickona, fully Thomas Edward Lickona
Schools cannot be ethical bystanders at a time when our society is in deep moral trouble. Rather, schools must do what they can to contribute to the character of the young and the moral health of the nation.
William Menninger, fully William Claire Menninger
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
Boris Pasternak, fully Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just fiction, it’s a part of our fortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.
Body | Day | Fortune | Health | Life | Life | Majority | Misfortune | Nothing | Soul | Space | System |
Oswald Spengler, fully Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler
Hatred… requires respect for one’s opponent; acknowledgment of equal rank is a part of it. One despises beings of lower rank.