This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Gold | Possessions | Soul | Happiness |
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned into it), are the natural securities for this transmission.
Avarice | Benevolence | Circumstances | Distinction | Family | Possessions | Power | Property | Society | Virtue | Virtue | Weakness | Wealth | Society |
The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race and that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
Children | Creed | Dignity | Earth | Equality | Human nature | Justice | Liberty | Nature | Race | Religion | Teach | Will |
Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness.
If perfection is, as it should be, the ultimate justification of being, we may understand the ground of the moral dignity of beauty.
Beauty | Dignity | Justification | Perfection | Understand |
Emil Brunner, fully Heinrich Emil Brunner
In the Kingdom of God there are no claims, but only love, which, as something which cannot be coordinated into a given structure, knows no calculations. All claimfulness is overcome because it is realized that complete dependence and freedom, human dignity and divine grace, are not opposites as the autonomous self-centered man supposes.
Dependence | Dignity | Freedom | God | Grace | Love | Man | Self | God |
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
Conscience | Health | Nothing | Possessions | Strength |
A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity of man.
The word “independence” is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word “dependence” is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
Corruption | Dependence | Dignity | Ideas | Inferiority | Virtue | Virtue |
The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to is dependency of language and expression.
A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.
Dignity | Friend | God | Intelligence | Little | Man | Smile |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
What is dignity without honesty?