This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The death of the advertising agency and the propaganda bureau will be one of the surest signs of the birth of a new society.
Advertising | Birth | Death | Society | Will | Propaganda |
The greatest event in natural history was the birth of conscience in the human mind. That was the moment when man put aside his strongest natural instinct, which was self-interest.
Birth | Conscience | History | Instinct | Man | Mind | Self | Self-interest |
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Duty | Freedom | Humanity | Oppression | Slavery | Society | Spirit | Truth | Society |
Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
The soul that would experience this birth must detach herself from all outward things: within herself completely at one with herself... You must have an exalted mind an a burning heart in which, nevertheless, reign silence and stillness.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, native form is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály
Harmony is usually achieved by evolutionary changes involving an increase in an organism’s complexity, that is, an increase in both differentiation and integration. (Differentiation refers to the degree to which a system (i.e., an organ such as the brain, or an individual, a family, a corporation, a culture, or humanity as a whole) is composed of parts that differ in structure or function from one another. Integration refers to the extent to which the parts communicate and enhance one another’s goals. A system that is more differentiated and integrated than another is said to be more complex.)
Culture | Family | Goals | Harmony | Humanity | Individual | Integration | System |
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
Humanity | Ingratitude | World | Happiness |
Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realization of Utopias.
Better | Humanity | Looks | Progress | Utopia | World | Worth |
We cannot leave behind us the sins of our past. We must not forget that nothing disappears. Everything is eternal. Everything that has been is still in existence. The whole history of humanity is the “history of crime”... Man must go back, seek for, and destroy the causes of evil however far back they lie. It is only in this idea that the hint of the possibilities of a general evolution can be found. It is only in this idea that the possibility of changing the karma of humanity lies, because changing the karma means changing the past... There will be no possibility of thinking of evolution of humanity, if the possibility did not exist for individually evolving man to go into the past and struggle against the causes of the present evil which lie there.
Crime | Destroy | Eternal | Evil | Evolution | Existence | History | Humanity | Man | Means | Nothing | Past | Present | Struggle | Thinking | Will |
All which a man has belongs to those who gave him birth and brought him up, and that he must do all that he can to minister to them, first, in his property, secondly, in his person, and thirdly, in his soul, in return for the endless care and travail which they bestowed upon him of old, in the days of his infancy, and which he is now to pay back to them when they are old and in the extremity of their need.
Birth | Care | Infancy | Man | Need | Property | Soul | Old |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Conscience | Freedom | Humanity | Law | Men | Purpose | Purpose | Rule | Society |
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Ram Dass, aka Baba Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert
At the beginning of the spiritual journey, many of us pushed away our humanity in an attempt to embrace our divinity... we've been learning to accept rather than reject our human qualities, creating a new partnership between the mundane and transcendent parts of ourselves.
Beginning | Divinity | Humanity | Journey | Learning | Qualities |
Ruth Benedict, born Ruth Fulton
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities... There is no social problem it is more incumbent upon us to understand that this of the role of custom. Until we are intelligent as to its laws and varieties, the main complicating facts of human life must remain unintelligible.
Behavior | Birth | Culture | Custom | Experience | History | Individual | Life | Life | Little | Time | Understand |