This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
The art of medicine is a question of timeliness.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater, and causing a panic… The question in every case is whether the words used are in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Circumstances | Danger | Free speech | Man | Nature | Panic | Present | Question | Right | Speech | Will | Words | Danger |
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “How?” But it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “Why?”
Rainer Maria Rilke, full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
All spaciousness, as in life - also the inner - is in the last analysis a question of proportion.
War is on its last legs; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only how soon?
Barbarism | Civilization | Peace | Question | War |
The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.
Rollo May, fully Rollo Reese May
There remains a chasm between truth and reality. And the crucial question which confronts us in psychology and other aspects of the science of man is precisely this chasm between what is abstractly true and what is existentially real for the given living person.
Susan B. Anthony, fully Susan Brownell Anthony
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
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When man appears before the Throne of Judgment, the first question he is asked is not: “Have you believed in God? Or “Have you prayed and observed the ritual?” He is asked: “Have you dealt honorably and faithfully in all your dealings with your fellow man?”