This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Art | Literature | Man | Obligation | Right | Sense | Spirit | Study | Will | Instruction | Art | Leadership |
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Action | Confidence | Fear | Life | Life | Obligation | Security | Sense | Spirit | Time |
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
Contemplation | Sense | Contemplation |
Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
Contemplation | Sense | Contemplation |
Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress
Sense |
We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning.
It is not easy to describe in words the precise impression which great and sublime objects make upon us when we behold them; but every one has a conception of it. It produces a sort of internal elevation and expansion; it raises the mind much above its ordinary state, and fills it with a degree of wonder and astonishment which it cannot well express. The emotion is certainly delightful, but it is altogether of the serious kind; a degree of awfulness and solemnity, even approaching to severity, commonly attends it when at its height, very distinguishable from the more gay and brisk emotion raised by beautiful objects.
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
Think for yourself, question authority.
Consciousness | Events | Sense |
Todd Rundgren, fully Todd Harry Rundgren
There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.
Dishonesty | Existence | Order | Sense |
We have deprived ourselves of that liberty of transposition in the arrangement of words which the ancient languages enjoyed.
Duty | Gentleness | Nature | Reflection | Sense |
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Energy | Life | Life | Philosophy | Science | Sense | System | Teach |
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
A slow smile bent back his foliage. I’ve a mind to lay you down and split you like a rack of mutton. What do you say to that?
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
If death wants me, let him ride up on a pale mount, ashes in his mouth, ice in his testicles. Frankly, I do not like the way death does business.
Attention | Cause | Day | Death | Humor | Irony | Light | Memory | Religion | Sense | Thought | Will | Thought |
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
I started before I was old enough to know better. My muse was a cradle-robber, a child-molester. She seduced an innocent, blue-eyed, tow-headed, pre-literate tot and turned him into a paragraph junkie. (In reply to how he got started as a novelist)