This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Victor Weisskopf, fully Victor "Viki" Frederick Weisskopf
Most forms of human creativity have one aspect n common: the attempt to give some sense to the various impressions, emotions, experiences, and actions that fill our lives, and thereby to give some meaning and value to our existence... The crisis of our time in the Western world is that the search for meaning has become meaningless for many of us.
Character | Creativity | Emotions | Existence | Meaning | Search | Sense | Time | World | Crisis | Value |
David Malet Armstrong, aka D. M. Armstrong
One of the great problems that must be solved in any attempt to work out a scientific world-view is that of bringing the being who puts forward the world-view within the world-view. By treating man, including his mental processes, as a purely, as a purely physical object, operating according to exactly the same laws as all other physical things, this object is achieved with the greatest possible intellectual economy. The knower differs from the world he knows only in the greater complexity of his physical organization.
Man | Object | Organization | Problems | Wisdom | Work | World |
One of the prime causes of unhappiness in the world is approval-seeking.
Character | Unhappiness | World |
Perception... is a constant communion between ourselves and the living world that encompasses us.
Perception | Wisdom | World |
He that will live in this world must be endued with the three rare qualities of dissimulation, equivocation, and mental reservation.
Equivocation | Qualities | Will | Wisdom | World |
J.M. Barrie, fully Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL
For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.
George Dana Boardman "The Younger"
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube, it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man got possession of all that gold - billions of dollars' worth, he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity.
Character | Conscience | Eternity | Friend | Gold | Man | Mind | Peace | Sense | Size | Wisdom | World | Worth |