This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Everything rhythmically organic is true. Everything, which results from the proper feeling for rhythmically organized spiritual units, is true and alive ? alive within itself. When we lose the sense for such true beauty we lose our natural sense for the rich flavor of life, which is the basis for all inspirational work.
Man |
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Man |
This shows to what extent violence and its arbitrariness were taken for granted and therefore neglected; no one questions or examines what is obvious to all.
Man |
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
Man |
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically ? as Amy Lowell loved Keats ? and have sought its acquaintance wherever we could find it. And in this growing intimacy we have become increasingly impressed with the influence that this and other infectious diseases, which span ? in their protoplasmic continuities ? the entire history of mankind, have had upon the fates of men.
We are frequently faced with the necessity of looking for the picture required for the visualization of an object, not in the perception of this particular object, but in a different perceptual image... we can assert the discrepancy between the perceived picture and the objective state. This discrepancy... proves absolutely nothing against the fact that all visualizations are merely sense qualities of the perceptual space... If the parallelism is... to be visualized, we must supplement our assertion by the description of certain qualities with which we are familiar from perceptual space.
Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.
Consideration | Man | Nothing |
Never let the bottom of your purse or of your mind be seen.
No good lawyer ever goes to court himself.
Ability | Balance | Technology | Work |
Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.
Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.
Business | Government | Right | Wealth | Government | Business |
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.