This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
It is useless to attack a man who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
If you delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, you overcharge the morrow with a burden which belongs not to it. You load the wheels of time, and prevent it from carrying you along smoothly. He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows out the plan, carries on a thread which will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all his affairs. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, all things lie huddled together in one chaos, which admits neither of distribution nor review.
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body.
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
Right |
The discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passions, fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity, than all the provisions we can make of the goods of fortune.
Beauty | Genius | Good | Little | Mind | Power | Rest | Sensibility | Taste | Words | Beauty |
A fourth rule for constructing sentences with proper strength is to make the members of them go on rising and growing in their importance above one another. This sort of arrangement is called a climax, and is always considered as a beauty in composition.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.
Balance |
CALIBAN: Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven? STEPHANO: Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee; I was the Man i' th' Moon, when time was. CALIBAN: I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee. My mistress show'd me thee, and thy dog and thy bush. The Tempest, Act ii, Scene 2
Mother |
Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus; home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Study |
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
Accident | Argument | Boldness | Censure | Deliberation | Earth | Excellence | Force | Man | Morality | Ostentation | Principles | Property | Purpose | Purpose | Rest | Right | Sense | Will | Excellence | Deliberation |
Daniel Gilbert, fully Daniel Todd Gilbert, aka Professor Happiness
If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people. Science has given us a lot of facts about the average person, and one of the most reliable of these facts is that the average person doesn't see herself as average.
Daniel Gilbert, fully Daniel Todd Gilbert, aka Professor Happiness
Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.
Rest |