This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent... there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
Art | Intelligence | Life | Life | Art |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Immature man is like a frightened child, alone in a darkening room, not seeing the nearby light switch.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upheld by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
One should make good people their friends. One, who keeps good friends, benefits and lives in peace.
Deeds | Good | Intelligence | Sound | Deeds |
Everybody likes to befriend a Soft spoken person. Therefore one should always speak good of others and be soft spoken.
Intelligence | Power | Intellect |
One should not only abstain from 'sinful-deeds' but also from 'sinful- speech' and 'sinful-thought'. By doing so we pave our way to success and peace.
Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were all there.
Day | Hero | Individual | Intelligence | Man | Mind | Science | Story | Think |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Take it on the mercy of God to punish unnecessarily.
Ignorance | Industry | Intelligence | Knowledge | Men |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
The job of government and politicians in such a flattening world is more important than ever. It is to embrace globalization and understand that a fairer, more compassionate, and more egalitarian society lies in a web of policies aimed not at strengthening the old welfare state–or in abolishing it and just letting the market rip–but at reconfiguring it to give more Americans the outlook, education, skills, and safety nets they will need to compete against other individuals in the flat world. That is what compassionate flatism stands for, and it is built around five section areas: leadership, muscle, cushioning, social activism, and parenting.
Intelligence | World |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Of course, when all is said, it is not learning but the spirit of service that will give a college place in the public annals of the nation.
Education | Intelligence | Man | Organic |
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school.
Ability | Action | Argument | Intelligence | Men | Need | Thought | Afraid | Thought |
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
Action | Intelligence | People | Thinking |
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search — for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning.
Intelligence | Universe |
But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, methinks the truth should live from age to age, as 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day. King Richard III, Act iii, Scene 1
Despair | Intelligence | Soul | Will |