This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The degradation of our society today stems mainly from the lack of awareness of what is within us. Being ignorant of our true nature, we seek external solutions to the problems rooted within. In our search for security and prosperity we have abandoned ourselves and are constantly drifting away from human values and virtues.
Awareness | Nature | Problems | Prosperity | Search | Security | Society | Society | Awareness |
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty. In times of adversity not one among twenty.
E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher
No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make “safe” and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself, a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime ever perpetrated by man.
Crime | Danger | Justify | Life | Life | Man | Prosperity | Safe | Danger |
Fulton Sheen, fully Archbishop Fulton John Sheen
In times of prosperity the church administers; in times of adversity the church shepherds.
Adversity | Church | Prosperity |
Peter Medawar, fully Sir Peter Brian Medawar
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
Advice | Age | Better | Hypothesis |
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Adversity | Education | Prosperity |
Anne Frank, fully Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank
How true Daddy’s words were when he said: “All children must look after their own upbringing.” Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Advice | Character | Children | Good | Parents | Right | Words |