This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Don't wait for the last judgment-it takes place every day...An achievement is bondage. It obliges one to higher achievement.
Achievement | Day | Judgment |
Alan Alda, born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.
The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and a man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
Humanity | Inhumanity | Man | Reverence |
I shall tell you a great secret my friend, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.
Charity | Courage | Hate | Magnanimity | Strength |
Goodness must be denied a place among the aims of art. For Goodness is a qualification belonging to the constitution of reality, which in any of its individual actualizations is better or worse. Good and evil lie in depths and distances below and beyond appearance. They solely concern inter-relations within the real world. The real world is good when it is beautiful. Art has essentially to do with perfections attainable by purposeful adaptation of appearance.
Aims | Appearance | Art | Better | Evil | Good | Individual | Reality | World | Art |
A.J. Cronin, fully Archibald Joseph "A.J." Cronin
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
Chance has no place in that which is natural, and what happens everywhere and in every case is no matter of chance.
Chance |
Only a small mind traffics in scorn; a mind whose truth accords no place to others’. But we who knew that different truths can coexist thought not that we were lowering ourselves by countenancing another’s truth, unpalatable though it might seem.