This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
What is wrong with difference is not difference, but man's reluctance to allow and encourage it, and to cultivate it creatively.
Be sure your goal is a right one, for if it isn’t, it’s a wrong one, and nothing wrong every turns out right.
Don’t do things the wrong way. Learn the right way. It’s easier because it’s right.
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love, neither himself nor his own thins, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.
Cause | Good | Honor | Judgment | Love | Man | Object | Preference | Self | Self-love | Thinking | Truth | Wrong |
The dispute between the theory of a predestined future and the theory of a free future is an endless dispute. This is so because both theories are too literal, too rigid, too material, and the one excludes the other... The opposites are both equally wrong because the truth lies in the unification of these two opposite understandings into one whole. At any given moment all the future of the world is predestined and existing - provided no new factor comes in. And a new factor can only come in from the side of consciousness and the will resulting from it.
Consciousness | Dispute | Future | Theories | Truth | Will | World | Wrong |
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years, through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject’s vitality. And when at last the illness suddenly shows itself, it would be a most superficial medicine which treated it without going back to its remote causes, to all that I call “personal problems.” There are personal problems in every life. There are secret tragedies in every heart. “Man does not die,” a doctor has remarked. “He kills himself”... Every act of physical, psychological, or moral disobedience of God’s purpose is an act of wrong living and has its inevitable consequences.
Consequences | Diet | Disobedience | God | Heart | Inevitable | Intemperance | Life | Life | Man | Problems | Purpose | Purpose | Thought | Wrong |
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
Capacity | Care | Change | Desire | Failure | Life | Life | Man | Time | Wrong |
A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.
Arthur Helps, fully Sir Arthur Helps
The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury and wrong pass before their minds, efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
A just war is in the long run far better for a nation’s soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence toward wrong or injustice. Moreover, though it is criminal for a nation not to prepare for war, so that it may escape the dreadful consequences of being defeated in war, it must always be remembered that even to be defeated in war is far better than never to have fought at all.
Better | Consequences | Injustice | Injustice | Peace | Soul | War | Wrong |
Verbal wrong is worse than monetary wrong. The former affects the victim's person, the latter only his money.
T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot
The last temptation is the greatest reason, to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Reason | Right | Temptation | Wrong | Temptation |
Regard as enormous the little wrong you did to others, and as trifling the great wrong done to you.