This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
Individual | Reality |
Whenever two men meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man was the other sees him, and each man as he really is.
Reality |
The pure, mere love of God is that alone from which sinners are justly to expect that no sin will pass unpunished, but that His love will visit them with every calamity and distress that can help to break and purify the bestial heart of man and awaken in him true repentance and conversion to God. It is love alone in the holy Deity that will allow no peace to the wicked, nor ever cease its judgments till every sinner is forced to confess that it is good for him that he has been in trouble, and thankfully own that not the wrath but the love of God has plucked out that right eye, cut off that right band, which he ought to have done but would not do for himself and his own salvation.
Agony | Body | Death | Eternal | Force | Man | Mortal | Progress | Reality |
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Individual | Reality |
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.
Wants |
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
Distrust | Injustice | Injustice | Reality | Self-interest |
Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.
When crossing a river in bright moonlight, I love to see the water scatter in showers of crystal under the oxen's feet.
When a son attends to his father, it is a twofold joy for both; when wise things are prescribed to him, the son is [to be] gentle.
Wants |
You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of Maat.
The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.
Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
Wants |
The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.