This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
P. D. Premasiri, fully Pahalawattage Don Premasiri
Fanaticism and intolerance often result from the delusion that, "this alone is the truth and everything else is false," causing people to commit atrocities in the name of "truth."
Delusion | Fanaticism | Intolerance | People | Truth |
We believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guild or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality.
Beauty | Compassion | Despair | Dogma | Faith | Fear | Hope | Ignorance | Joy | Learning | Love | Optimism | Pessimism | Reason | Selfishness | Sin | Truth | Beauty |
Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.
Every truth has two sides; it is well to look at both before we commit ourselves to either.
Truth |