This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Which do you admire, the slain or the slayer, Caesar or Brutus? Generally people are for the slayer. Hurrah for Brutus! He slew. That's virtue. Virtue, but folly too...The Brutus who slew Caesar was in love with a statue of a little boy. This statue was by the Greek sculptor Strongylion, who also designed that statue of an Amazon called the beautiful limbed, Euknemos, which Nero carried with him on his journeys. This Strongylion left nothing but two statues which put Brutus and Nero in harmony. Brutus was in love with one and Nero with the other.
History | Past | Philosophy |
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
Ability | Accident | Day | Growth | Life | Life | Meaning | Power | Psychology | Television | Time | Will |
One should always seek company of intelligent and the person with purity of thought.
One, who wishes well of others and works for their welfare, quite naturally becomes the ruler of the masses.
Make the Beloved Lord your friend. Keep Him constantly in your mind; He is the Support of the breath of life.
Relationship | Friends |
O sun, take away their sight; O rays, run after them; clinging to their feet, fasten yourselves upon them, when the strength of their arms is gone.
I surrender my mind to Him; I place my wealth before Him. I totally renounce my selfish ways.
I am a sacrifice to my True Guru. He shall not abandon me; He shall surely carry me across.
Only such a householder who practices restraint in taking care of his family shall acquire family happiness and achieve higher social status.
Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist.
Remember that the whole thing is just a play and the Lord has assigned to you a part; act well your part; there all your duty ends. He has designed the play and He enjoys it.
You may have huge hordes of men in the army; but they are useful only when the few Generals who lead them know where they are and whether they should proceed and how to overcome the enemy, whose strength and weakness they have comprehended. Hordes of people sing, recite, adore, worship, praise and prostrate, but these are the soldiers.
The people, rulers, leaders and chiefs - none of them shall be able to remain in the world. Death is inevitable; it strikes the heads of the false.
The past is 'truth' because events have already happened and they cannot be questioned.
The tongue is the armor of heart; it guards one's life. Loud talk, long talks, wild talk, and talk full of anger and hate; all these affect the health of man. Why is silence said to be golden? The silent man has no enemies, though he may not have friends. He has the leisure and the chance to delve within himself and examine his own faults and failings. He has no more inclination to seek them (fault) in others.
Peace | Personality | Will | Happiness |
Things are not so important; the transcendental truth of things is of value.
Laziness |
We should make efforts to acquire right knowledge and refrain from violence.
Diet | Opportunity | Regard | Ugly |