This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
To dally much with subject mean and low proves that the mind is weak, or makes it so.
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.
Body | Day | Gold | Hate | Inevitable | Law | Love | Revelation | World |
Wernher von Braun, fully Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun
It [space travel] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Age | Bible | Destroy | Enough | God | Good | History | Knowledge | Law | Moral law | Nature | Power | Question | Revelation | Science | Space | God | Bible | Learn |
The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.
Ability | Abundance | Defeat | Desire | Evidence | Hope | Ignorance | Knowledge | Problems | Revelation | World |
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the "pluralistic," displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
Ability | Good | Justification | Order | Revelation | Learn | Think |
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.
Contempt | Ideals | Looks | Revelation | Self | Sense | Soul | Strength | World |
Poetry is a finikin thing of air that lives uncertainly and not for long yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!
Birth | Constraint | Mystery | Revelation |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
What is this terror? What is this ecstasy, he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.
Little | Meaning | Revelation |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
Little | Revelation |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.
Need | Revelation | Study | Understand |
François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
I am Bourbon as a matter of honor, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.
Little | Man | Race | Revelation | Will |
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher classes.
Eternal | Evil | Reason | Revelation | Will |
A rule that relates even to the smallest part of our life is of great benefit to us, merely as it is a rule.
God | Providence | Revelation | God |
It has become a conviction with me that psychology may in the long run do much to change the conception of the fundamental nature of the religious life, which, on the whole, is now too generally made a matter of doctrine. It is too intellectual At the doors of most churches one is met by required beliefs in a particular conception of God, in a speculative theory about the divinity of Christ, definite ideas concerning sin and salvation, the efficacy of ordinances, and the claims of supernatural revelation. What people are really seeking is access to refreshing fountains of life, sources of strength and guidance. They crave association with people and institutions which may convey to them a sense of what is most worthwhile in life and what may furnish impulsion toward real and enduring values. They know pretty well what those values are when allowed to let their own deepest desires express themselves.
Beginning | Divinity | Excitement | History | Meaning | Metaphysics | Philosophy | Revelation | Science | Temper | Theology | Thought | Work | Thought |
Nothing yet proves that continued progress is inevitable, but that it is possible no one but an extreme skeptic or pessimist can doubt.
Bible | Example | Intelligence | Life | Life | Reflection | Rest | Revelation | Security | Words | Bible |
Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
Earth | Force | Man | Mind | Revelation |
Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
The intellect says; 'Ostensibly there is colour, ostensibly sweetness, ostensibly bitterness, actually only atoms and the void.'
Absurd | Revelation |
Étienne Gilson, fully Étienne Henry Gilson
We do not need to project out own ideas into the economy of nature; they belong there in their own right. Our own ideas are in the economy of nature because we ourselves are in it. Any and every one of the things which a man does intelligently is done with a purpose and to a certain end which is the final cause why he does itÂ… Through man, who is part and parcel of nature, purposiveness most certainly is part and parcel of nature. In what sense is it arbitrary, knowing from within that where there is organization there always is a purpose, to conclude that there is a purpose wherever there is organization?
Absolute | Ego | Existence | People | Question | Revelation |