This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
In the destiny of every moral being there is an object more worthy of God than happiness. It is character. And the grand aim of man's creation is the development of grand character - and grand character is, by its very nature, the product of probationary discipline.
Character | Destiny | Discipline | God | Man | Nature | Object | God |
Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
Character | Instinct | Motives | Self | Self-preservation |
John H. Aughey, fully John Hill Aughey
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime and ever enduring.
It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered after ages. It is by thought that has aroused the intellect from its slumbers, which has given luster to virtue and dignity to truth, or by those examples which have inflamed the soul with the love of goodness.
Character | Dignity | Love | Soul | Thought | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Intellect | Thought |
Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.
Competition | Energy | Instinct | Selfishness | Wisdom |
Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.