This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men’s souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.
Hélder Câmara, fully Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara
Selfishness is the deepest root of all unhappiness... It feeds an insatiable hunger that first eats up everything belonging to others and then causes a creature to devour itself.
Hunger | Selfishness | Unhappiness |
Ideas or hypotheses are tested by the consequences which they produce when they are acted upon.
Consequences | Ideas |
Angus Dun and Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
The occasions to which the concept of the just war can be rightly applied have become highly restricted. A war to “defend the victims of wanton aggression” where the demands of justice join the demands of order, is today the clearer case of a just war… The concept of a just war does not provide moral justification for initiating a war of incalculable consequences to end such oppression.
Aggression | Consequences | Justice | Justification | Oppression | Order | War |
As long as anger lives, she continues to be the fruitful mother of many unhappy children.
If you rest in the stillness like a broken gong, you have already reached heaven, for anger has left you.
José Figueres, fully José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer, aka Don Pepe
Peace will help development. Development will engender peace. They are both causes and effects. They strengthen each other.
F. A. Hayek, fully Friedrich August Hayek or von Hayek
Responsibility, not to a superior, but to one’s conscience, the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion, the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others, and to beat the consequences of one’s own decision, are the very essence of any morals which deserve the name.
Awareness | Conscience | Consequences | Decision | Duty | Necessity | Responsibility | Awareness |
The most effective kind of prayer is that in which we place ourselves, in our hearts, before God, relinquishing all resistance, letting go of all secret irritation, opening ourselvse to the truth, to God’s holy mystery, saying over and over again, “I desire truth, I am ready to receive it, even this truth which causes me such concern, if it be the truth. Give me the light to know it – and to see how it bears on me.”
Our pursuit of knowledge involves exploring the consequences of our initial assumptions, both our conceptual assumptions and empirical ones
David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins
Basic axiomatic positionalities of the ego: (1) Phenomena are either good or bad, right or wrong, just or unjust, fair or unfair. (2) The `bad’ deserve to be punished and the `good’ rewarded. (3) Things happen by accident or else they are the fault of somebody else. (4) the mind is capable of comprehending and recognizing truth from falsehood. (5) The word causes and determines one’s experiences. (6) Life is unfair because the innocent suffer while the wicked go unpunished. (7) People can be different than they are. (8) It is critical and necessary to be right. (9) It is critical and necessary to win. (10) Wrongs must be righted. (11) Righteousness must prevail. (12) Perceptions represent reality.
Accident | Ego | Falsehood | Fault | Good | Life | Life | Mind | People | Phenomena | Reality | Right | Righteousness | Truth | Wrong | Fault |
Hitopadesa, translated means Book of Good Counsels NULL
How can true happiness proceed from wealth, which in its acquisition causes pain; ;in loss, affliction; in abundance, folly.
Abundance | Affliction | Folly | Pain | Wealth | Happiness |
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false, and the false with the true.
Hate | Man | Objectivity | Personality | Sense | Ugly | Unity |