This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Human life, because it is marked by a beginning and an end, becomes whole, an entirety in itself that can be subjected to judgment only when it has ended in death. Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
God never ordained you to have a conscience for others. Your conscience is for you, and for you alone.
Conscience | God |
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
Capacity | Conscience | Fidelity | Qualities | Success |
Love it is – not conscience – that is God’s regent in the human soul, because it can govern the soul as nothing else can.
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Every one has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
Conscience | Enough | Hate | Love | Religion |
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has sent in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good in its placed as conscience or veneration. Praying can o more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.
Asceticism | Conscience | God | Good | Mind | Spirit | God | Blessed |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
Conscience | Man |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Conscience | Custom | Morality |
Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell thee, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
Conscience | Force | Sin | Soul |
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Conscience | Nothing | Worth |
All our knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thence to understanding, and ends with reason, beyond which nothing higher can be discovered in the human mind for elaborating the matter of intuition and subjecting it to the highest unity of thought.
Ends | Intuition | Knowledge | Mind | Nothing | Reason | Sense | Thought | Understanding | Unity |
Nonviolence does not mean acceptance, but resistance - not waiting, but acting. It is not at all passive. It involves strikes, boycotts, non-cooperation, mass demonstrations, and sabotage, as well as appeals to the conscience of the world, even to individuals in the oppressing group who might break away from their past.
Acceptance | Conscience | Cooperation | Past | Waiting | World |
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Control | Ends | Nature | Understanding |