This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
It is not marriage that fails: it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
Those who are versed in the history of their country, in the history of the human race, must know that rigorous state prosecutions have always preceded the era of convulsion; and this era, I fear, will be accelerated by the folly and madness of our rulers. If the people are discontented, the proper mode of quieting their discontent is, not by instituting rigorous and sanguinary prosecutions, but by redressing their wrongs and conciliating their affections. Courts of justice, indeed, may be called in to the aid of ministerial vengeance; but if once the purity of their proceedings is suspected, they will cease to be objects of reverence to the nation; they will degenerate into empty and expensive pageantry, and become the partial instruments of vexatious oppression. Whatever may become of me, my principles will last forever. Individuals may perish; but truth is eternal. The rude blasts of tyranny may blow from every quarter; but freedom is that hardy plant which will survive the tempest and strike an everlasting root into the most unfavorable soil.
Aid | Discontent | Era | Eternal | Folly | Freedom | History | Madness | People | Principles | Purity | Reverence | Truth | Tyranny | Will | Wisdom |
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Consciousness | Individual | Marriage | Pain | Relationship | Wisdom |
Stanley Kunitz, fully Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems to be too short.
Conversation | Happy | Marriage | Wisdom |
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.
Love | Object | Reverence | Tenderness | Wisdom |
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin the more confused the origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation, until it becomes holy and inspires awe.
The finest fruit of serious learning should be the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment. And it should be spoken without adolescent resentment, rather with some sense of communion, with reverence and with joy.
Ability | God | Joy | Learning | Resentment | Reserve | Reverence | Sense | Wisdom | God |