This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Walter Pater, fully Walter Horatio Pater
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.
Discipline | Sound | Intellect |
W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Take away the moral argument: persuade men that when ascribing to the Deity justice and mercy they are speaking of qualities generically distinct from those which exist among mankind -- qualities which we are altogether unable to conceive, and which may be compatible with acts that men would term grossly unjust and unmerciful: tell them that guilt may be entirely unconnected with a personal act, that millions of infants may be called into existence for a moment to be precipitated into a place of torment, that vast nations may live and die, and then be raised again to endure a never-ending punishment, because they did not believe in a religion of which they had never heard, or because a crime was committed thousands of years before they were in existence: convince them that all this is part of a transcendentally perfect and righteous moral scheme, and there is no imaginable abyss to which such a doctrine will not lead. You will have blotted out those fundamental notions of right and wrong which the Creator has engraven upon every heart; you will have extinguished the lamp of conscience; you will have taught men to stifle the inner voice as a lying witness, and to esteem it virtuous to disobey it. But even this does not represent the full extent of the evil.
Character | Experience | Important | Success | Intellect |
We are related organically, and we have to live that relationship. To be attentive to the dynamics of the inner being is not creating a network of escapes to avoid responsibility. It is not continuing a false superiority that I am sensitive and you are not. It is simply recognizing that our personal relationships and collective relationships are miserable affairs, and that these relationships stimulate fear and anxieties and throw us on the defensive. However much we yearn for peace, emotionally we are not mature enough for peace, and our immaturity affects everything we do, every action we take, even the most worthy of actions.
Body | Emotions | Friend | Motives | Wholeness | Will | World | Intellect |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
May that 'divine knowledgeable person'(almighty) inspire us! One, without whose inspiration one can never attain total knowledge.
From his navel arose the air; from his head the heaven evolved; from his feet the earth; the [four] directions from his ear. Thus, they fashioned the worlds.
Accomplishment | Will | Work | Intellect |
May there be unison in the speech and action of humans. Only by this shall, unity emerge and serve each others’ purpose. The nation shall emerge stronger and mightier because of this.
Everybody likes to befriend a Soft spoken person. Therefore one should always speak good of others and be soft spoken.
Intelligence | Power | Intellect |
A devotee, who spends his time in austerities has nothing to worry about as God fulfills all his needs.
Enlightenment | Knowledge | Intellect |
Only a person having trusted and worthy friend's lives and dwells in happiness on this earth.
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
In a universe that was perceived as inherently divine, where sacred animals munched sacred plants in groves of sacred trees, where holy rivers spilled from the laps of mountains that were Gods, to nurture a life was a lovely and important thing.