This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
It is in the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
The blind are more understanding than the deaf because hearing exerts a direct influence on the formation of moral character, which is not immediately true of what is seen. The human soul can also become diffused by way of the eye whereas what is heard results in focus and concentration.
Character | Focus | Influence | Soul | Understanding |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.
Desire | Progress | Reform | Society | World | Society | Understand |
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
To have faults and not reform them - that may indeed be called having faults.
Reform |
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only they who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step: only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders - these are the masters of victory.
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.
When drawing a face, any face, it is as if curtain after curtain, mask after mask, falls away, until a final mask remains, one that can no longer be removed, reduced. By the time the drawing is finished, I know a great deal about that face, for no face can hide itself for long. But although noting escapes the eye, all is forgiven beforehand. The eye does not judge, moralize, criticize. It accept the masks in gratitude as it does the long bamboos being long, the goldenrod being yellow.
All motion or natural action takes place in time, more or less rapidly, but still in determined moments well ascertained by nature. Even those actions which appear to take effect suddenly, and in the twinkling of an eye (as we express it), are found to admit of greater or less rapidity.
Whilst he boasteth that he can discern the least mote in the eye of another, he is not able to see the huge block that puts out the sight of both his eyes.