This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
Antagonism | Care | Cause | Eternal | Good | Individual | Suffering | Will | World |
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Respect | Reverence | Superiority | Respect |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.
In this country my Lords... the individual subject... 'has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them'
Affliction | Character | Distinguish | Feelings | Man | Perfection | Sensibility | Society | Suffering | Friendship | Society | Blessed |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Men | People | Superiority |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
It is observed in the golden verses of Pythagoras that power is never far from necessity. The vigor of the human mind quickly appears when there is no longer any place for doubt and hesitation, when diffidence is absorbed in the sense of danger, or overwhelmed by some resistless passion.
People | Superiority |
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences, as there is no hair so small but it casts its shadow.
It is certain that nothing we have brings us happiness, but only what we are, what we feel about ourselves.
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data ... and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.
Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.
Eternal | Hunger | Law | Man | Punishment | Respect | Suffering | Respect |
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Arthur Helps, fully Sir Arthur Helps
It is a shallow mind that suspects or rejects an offered kindness because it is unable to discover the motive. It would have been as wise for the Egyptians to have scorned the pure waters of the Nile because they were not quite certain about the source of that mighty river.
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Aye, indeed! Hast been brought up at the Abbey then. I could read it from thy reddened cheek and downcast eye, Hast learned from the monks, I trow, to fear a woman as thou wouldst a lazar-house. Out upon them! that they should dishonor their own mothers by such teaching. A pretty world it would be with all the women out of it.
Change | Nothing | Pain | Perception | Public | Suffering | Terror | World |