This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Sorrow comes soon enough without despondency. It does a man no good to carry around a lightning-rod to attract trouble.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all and love but one.
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
Just as a tested and rugged virtue of the moral hero is worth more than the lovely, tender, untried innocence of the child, so is the massive strength of a soul that has conquered truth for itself worth more than the soft peach-bloom faith of a soul that takes truth on trust.
Character | Faith | Hero | Innocence | Soul | Strength | Trust | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Worth |
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?
Art | Character | Heart | Indignation | Love | Man | People | Power | Rest | Soul | Art |
Orlando A. Battistam, fully Orlando Aloysius Battista, aka O.A. Battista
Tolerance consists of seeing certain things with your heart instead of with your eyes.
Al-Ghazali, fully Abū Ḥāmed Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ghazālī NULL
The heart perceives that which the eye cannot see.