This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Emil G. Hirsch, fully Emil Gustav Hirsch
This instinct for totality, the counterpart of the feeling, gnawing and rankling, of dissatisfaction, is the germ of all religion. But man answers the craving need of a totality and a prospect into the future according to his historical conditions. Therefore all religions are genuine rings. None of them is a counterfeit, and none of them owns exclusively the truth and the whole truth.
Intention | Man | Means | Music | Purpose | Purpose | Reality | Value |
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
The Lord’s church is spread over the whole globe, and so is universal. All who live a good life according to their own religious belief are members of it. Heaven is of such a nature that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
There was a time when time did not yet exist... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
Family | Lying | Means | Revolution |
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
It's silly to complain of misfortune with twenty years in advance.
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Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.
Bigotry | Economics | Future | God | Kill | Love | Man | Means | Men | Past | Position | Religion | Will | Worth | God |
No sacrifice is lost for a great ideal!
Ignorance | Inhumanity | Man | Means | Protest | Revolution | Spirit | System | Wrong |
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
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Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
Means | Personality |
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.