This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Stevie Smith, fully Florence Margaret Smith
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a person. It was not reasoned into them and cannot be reasoned out.
We will never comprehend why the infinite will, in order to realize its completion, requires the incomplete, or how evil can result in good. No forced attempt to reason out these events can give us peace of God. There is a different way, a way born from inward experience. We may not have been given the privilege of understanding how events are expressing the will of God. But one thing we do know, and on that knowledge all else depends – the will of God is directed only toward one thing: the spiritual.
Events | Evil | Experience | God | Good | Knowledge | Order | Peace | Reason | Understanding | Will | God | Privilege |
Page Smith, fully Charles Page Smith
The future is given shape by our faith, or condemned to drift and disaster by our indifference.
Faith | Future | Indifference |
A Reason, or universal self-consciousness, transcends the awareness of oneself in potential conflict with others, because it consists of awareness of oneself and others as existing in the universal infinite Spirit. Reason sees nature as the expression of the infinite Spirit.
Awareness | Consciousness | Nature | Reason | Self | Spirit | Awareness |
Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tolle
What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.
Consciousness | Future |
Stephen Vizinczey, born István Vizinczey
Our whole civilization is based on a hypothetical future and the idiocy of fortune-telling.
Civilization | Fortune | Future |
Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
Do you believe in a future life? Asked Pierre… If I see, and see clearly, the ladder rising from plant to man, why should I suppose that it breaks off with me, and does not lead further and further? I feel not only that I cannot perish, since nothing in the universe is annihilated, but that I always shall exist and always have existed.
Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
True religion is the establishment by man of such a relation to the Infinite Life around him, as, while connecting his life with this Infinitude and directing his conduct, is also in agreement with his reason and with human knowledge.
Conduct | Knowledge | Life | Life | Man | Reason | Religion |
Article 1 – All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Brotherhood | Conscience | Dignity | Reason | Rights | Spirit |
Depression boils down to one of two things: either dwelling excessively on the past or fantasizing excessively about the future. They have no present. Living in the past or living in the future produces a spiritual and emotional numbness to the present. And a depressed person chooses that numbness over facing the pain of the present.
Depression | Future | Pain | Past | Present |
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
Frances Wright, known as Fanny Wright
I am not going to question your opinions. I am not going to meddle with your belief. I am not going to dictate to you mine. All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Belief | Faith | Nature | Question | Reason | Search | Understand |
Bill Bradley, fully William Warren "Bill" Bradley
What is life worth if we don’t strive to build something that is bigger than we are and lasts longer than we do? For too long, we’ve not worried about future generations or met our obligations to each other. Instead, we have lived for ourselves, and for today. Such a world is simply not sustainable.
And it’s a good reason to forgive. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Change | Forgiveness | Future | Good | Past | Reason | Forgiveness |