This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, fully Sir or Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority and not violation of integrity.
Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade
All men cannot be poets or philanthropists; but all men can join in that gigantic and god-like work the progress of creation. Whoever improves their own nature improves the universe of which they are a part.
When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse the process and begin trading money for time.
Like every good teacher, authority should labor to render itself useless.
There is an inevitable tension between mysticism and religious orthodoxy… For the mystic, whatever his professed creed, final authority lies in his own experience.
Authority | Creed | Experience | Inevitable | Mysticism |
Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil. Perhaps it is a lonely person, or an invalid - or some unfortunate inefficient, to whom you can be something. It may be an old man or it may be a child. Or some good work is in want of volunteers who will devote a free evening to it or will run on errands for it. Who can reckon up all the ways in which the priceless fund of impulse, man, is capable of exploitation! He is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some play where you may invest your humanity.
Good | Humanity | Impulse | Little | Man | Men | Play | Search | Sympathy | Time | Will | Work | Old |
To enable it to do its work naturally, every new idea must be in some way embedded in what is old.
Work |
And what is the education of mankind if not the passage from faith in authority to personal conviction and to the sustained practice of the intellectual duty to consent to no idea except by virtue of its recognized truth, to accept no fact until its reality has been, in one way or another, established.
Authority | Duty | Education | Faith | Mankind | Practice | Reality | Truth | Virtue | Virtue |
Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one’s work.
Unknown Aboriginal Australian NULL
If you’re coming to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
Vivekananda, fully Sri or Swami Vivekananda, born Narendra Nath Datta NULL
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor.
Civilization | Luxury | Work |
If there’s a single bet we`ve missed over the years, it’s making kids sit quietly at their desks instead of letting them work with each other.
Work |
Vivekananda, fully Sri or Swami Vivekananda, born Narendra Nath Datta NULL
Duty becomes a disease with us; it drags us ever forward... This duty, this idea of duty is the midday summer sun which scorches the innermost soul of mankind... The only true duty is to be unattached and to work as free beings, to give up all work unto God.