This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesteron
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape.
Destroy | Doubt | Man | Scepticism | Time |
When love and understanding wholly replace greed and fear, then the illusion of time is conquered.
Greed | Illusion | Love | Time | Understanding |
George Leonard, fully George Burr Leonard
What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.
Ecstasy | Heart | Life | Life | Nothing | Power | Present | Soul | Spirit | Time | Wealth | Woman |
G. E. Moore, fully George Edward Moore
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
Time |
Given ample time and rather simple circumstances not likely to be unique in the universe, there does seem to be considerable probability , perhaps even inevitability, in the progress from dissociated atoms to macromolecules. The further organization of those molecules into cellular life would seem, on the face of it, to have a far different, very much lower order of probability. It is not impossible, because we know it did happen at least once.
Circumstances | Life | Life | Order | Organization | Progress | Time | Unique |
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
Experience | Time | Will |
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Emil Brunner, fully Heinrich Emil Brunner
This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man which we call sin. The truth about man is that his ground is not in himself but in God -- that his essence is not in self sufficient reason but in the Word, in the challenge of God, in responsibility, not in self-sufficiency. The true being of man is realized when he bases himself upon God's Word. Faith is then not an impossibility or a salto mortale [mortal leap], but that which is truly natural; and the real salto mortale (a mortal leap indeed!) is just the assertion of autonomy, self-sufficiency, God-likeness. [It is] through this usurped independence [that] man separates himself from God, and at the same time isolates himself from his fellows. Individualism is the necessary consequence of rational autonomy, just as love is the necessary consequence of faith.
Assertion | Challenge | Ego | Faith | God | Impossibility | Love | Man | Mortal | Reason | Self | Time | Truth | God | Understand |
As we are now living in an eternity, the time to be happy is today.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this.
Hal Borland, formally Harold Glen Borland
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your own profession. Do not indulge yourselves to judge of things by the first glimpse, or a short and superficial view of them; for this will fill the mind with errors and prejudices, and give it a wrong turn and ill habit of thinking, and make much work for retraction.