This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Abigail Van Buren, pen name for Pauline Phillips and now daughter Jeanne Phillips
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Adrienne Rich, fully Adrienne Cecil Rich
The unconscious wants the truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
Your character is developed according to your faith. This is the primary religious truth from which no one can escape.
The common character of all evil is that its realization in fact involves that there is some concurrent realization of a purpose towards elimination. The purpose is to secure the avoidance of evil. The fact of the instability of evil is the moral order in the world.
Character | Evil | Instability | Order | Purpose | Purpose | World |
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take way with us.
If thinking is perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.
Character | Mind | Object | Sense | Soul | Thinking | Thought |