Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Walter Farrell
American Brother at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., Editor of Dominicana, Author best known for his books "My Way of Life" and "Companion to the Summa"
"Loneliness is a game of pretense, for the essential loneliness is an escape from an inescapable God."
"Perhaps some day, the modern man will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of man, it is his home."
"If the men of our time had their way, God would be on the carpet all the time offering soothing explanations to angry questions."
"Tolerance does not ... do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good."