This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
To be able to live in strict conformity with nature is what the men of old defined as the end of happiness.
Conformity | Men | Nature | Wisdom | Old |
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize-at least, the truth that is given us to understand...Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
It would be correct to say that the world was not made in time, but that time was formed by means of the world, for it was heaven's movement that was the index of the nature of time.
When the righteous man searches for the nature of things, he makes his own admirable discovery: that everything is God's grace.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction, which thou canst not see; all discord harmony, not understood; all partial evil, universal good: and, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, one truth is clear, “Whatever is, is Right.”
Art | Chance | Evil | Good | Harmony | Nature | Pride | Reason | Right | Truth | Wisdom |
Robert Oppenheimer, fully Julius Robert Oppenheimer
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.
Culture | Ideas | Knowledge | Nature | Order | Past | Society | Will | Wisdom | World | Society |
Human nature craves novelty.
Human nature | Nature | Novelty | Wisdom |
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows; and to be equally avoided.
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. since its objective is the ownership, control, development, processing, distribution, and use of the natural resources for the benefit of the people, it is by its very nature the antithesis of monopoly.
Antithesis | Common Sense | Conservation | Control | Good | Nature | People | Problems | Sense | Wisdom |
This whole striving for brotherhood is somehow in the very nature of things. Once you affirm it, you're in the stream of existence.
Brotherhood | Existence | Nature | Wisdom |
Richard Nixon, fully Richard Milhous Nixon
In dealing with the environment we must learn now how to master nature but how to master ourselves, our institutions, and our technology.
Nature | Technology | Wisdom | Learn |
The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship; the rules of architecture never built a house.
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.
Language | Man | Nature | Understanding | Wisdom |