This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
Politics |
If there is a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
Earth | Heart | Hell | Man | Melancholy |
T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which they took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot
Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, and the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone... the final desolation of solitude in the phantasmal world of imagination, shuffling memories, and desires.
Desolation | Hell | Imagination | Nothing | Solitude | World |
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Achievement | Children | Enjoyment | Success |
Theologia Germanica, aka Theologia Deutsch or Teutsch NULL
Nothing burns in hell but the self.
T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot
What is hell? Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
When I cannot be forced, I am fooled out of my integrity. He cannot constrain if I do not consent. If I do but keep possession, all the posse of hell cannot violently eject me; but I cowardly surrender to his summons. Thus there needs no more to be my undoing but myself.
Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
Justice |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
What is at the heart of all our national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.
Heart | Possessions | Problems | Rights |
Thomas Henry Huxley, aka T.H. Huxley and Darwin's Bulldog
The question of questions for mankind - the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other - is the ascertainment of the placed which man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things. Whence our race has come; what are the limits of our power over nature, and of nature’s power over us; to what goal we are tending; are the problems which present themselves anew and with undiminished interest to every man born into the world.
Man | Mankind | Nature | Power | Present | Problems | Question | Race | Universe | World |
W. H. Davies, fully William Henry Davies
Let us not judge life by the number of its breaths taken, but by the number of times the breath is held, or lost, either under a deep emotion, caused by love, or when we stand before an object of interest and beauty.
I say that justice is nothing other than the interest of the stronger.
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is necessary in conversation.
Conversation | Repose |
If life were eternal all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends its fascination.
Anticipation | Eternal | Life | Life | Uncertainty |