This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Mind | Punishment | Will | Wisdom |
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end... It's a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content or of weariness.
Ignorance | Inquiry | Mind | Philosophy | Progress | Wisdom | Wonder |
The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it.
What is the standpoint of materialism?... We look outwards (via the senses) for the explanation and cause of everything. We start from phenomena as absolute truth... Materialism gives sense and physical matter priority over mind or idea... The customary standpoint of scientific materialism is that primary matter is dead - and the universe is dead and nature is dead - and a dead nature can, of course, aim at nothing. It cannot be teleological.
Absolute | Cause | Materialism | Mind | Nature | Nothing | Phenomena | Sense | Truth | Universe | Wisdom |
We find the attribute of unchangingness always associated with the highest level of conscious experience. The experiences of truth are always similar. There is the changing mind, following time and change; and the unchanging mind behind it. There is the order of natural reasoning that goes with changing phenomena, and another above... The source of all truth lies in ‘unchangeable truth’ which is above the level of reason, and it is the internal perception of this unchangeable truth that endows man with the highest grade of being.
Change | Experience | Man | Mind | Order | Perception | Phenomena | Reason | Time | Truth | Wisdom | Following |
Though severed in body, one mind keeps us linked.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of mind is irreparable.