This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
One of the great problems that must be solved in any attempt to work out a scientific world-view is that of bringing the being who puts forward the world-view within the world-view. By treating man, including his mental processes, as a purely, as a purely physical object, operating according to exactly the same laws as all other physical things, this object is achieved with the greatest possible intellectual economy. The knower differs from the world he knows only in the greater complexity of his physical organization.
Man | Object | Organization | Problems | Wisdom | Work | World |
One of the prime causes of unhappiness in the world is approval-seeking.
Character | Unhappiness | World |
Perception... is a constant communion between ourselves and the living world that encompasses us.
Perception | Wisdom | World |
He that will live in this world must be endued with the three rare qualities of dissimulation, equivocation, and mental reservation.
Equivocation | Qualities | Will | Wisdom | World |
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube, it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man got possession of all that gold - billions of dollars' worth, he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity.
Character | Conscience | Eternity | Friend | Gold | Man | Mind | Peace | Sense | Size | Wisdom | World | Worth |
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause or unravel the mystery of human events?
Anxiety | Anxiety | Cause | Events | Life | Life | Mind | Mystery | Wisdom | World | Blessed | Parent |
You'll do well to remember that in all the world there is no word more important than - "Think!"