This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
Wilfred Trotter, fully Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power—to name only a few—as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.
Ideas | Mercy | Mind | Usefulness | Will |
That a Man should know the measure of his Gift, that he may desire and take a better when God giveth it.
Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.
Human nature | Mercy | Nature | Temptation | Will | Temptation |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
A fault is fostered by concealment.
Mercy | Providence |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Have no fear to not know where you are going in life.
An admirable thing, the poetry of a people is the gauge of its progress. The quantity of civilization is measured by the quantity of imagination.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
The more a man neglects his own life the more he will be compelled to wrongly involve himself in the lives of others. This accounts for the neurotic reformer, the busybody, the general troublemaker. Being self-deceived he will always credit himself with noble motives. This is a good example of the wrong use of natural energy.
Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
That does not offend society is not the purview of justice.