The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. —Plato More about this quote Tags: soul disease body doctors treatment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Healing is what happens, not what we do. —Dora Kunz More about this quote Tags: action change work healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When Charles II had a fit while shaving in 1685, he was lucky to be treated with the finest medical advice of the day. He was attended by fourteen physicians who . . . shaved his head, applied blistering agents to his scalp, put special plasters made from pigeon droppings onto the soles of his feet, fed him bezoar stones (much-prized gallstones from the bladder of a goat), and made him drink forty drops of extract from a dead man's skull. He died two days later. —Karl Shaw More about this quote Tags: history medicine doctors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one health, but diseases are many. Likewise, there appears to be one fundamental force that heals, although the myriad schools of medicine all have their favorite ways of cajoling it into action. —Dr. Robert O. Becker More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health. —Adelle Davis More about this quote Tags: health disease study Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn't be so many humans on the planet. —Ina May Gaskin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Healthy people are always prejudiced against medicine. —Catharine Maria Sedgwick More about this quote Tags: prejudice health medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. —Dr. Martin Henry Fischer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When will they realize that there are too many drugs? No fewer than 150,000 preparations are now in use. About 15,000 new mixtures and dosages hit the market each year, while about 12,000 die off. . . . We simply don't have enough diseases to go around. At the moment the most helpful contribution is the new drug to counteract the untoward effect of other new drugs. —Dr. Walter Modell, writing in 1961 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. —Ivan Illich More about this quote Tags: health disease medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: health eating drinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I had never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet. —Carson McCullers More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Justice is like the kingdom of God — it is not without us as a fact; it is within us as a great yearning. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: justice God yearning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. . . . All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: progress certainty morality inferiority doubt enforcement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real existence of an enemy upon whom one can foist off everything evil is an enormous relief to one's conscience. You can then at least say, without hesitation, who the devil is; you are quite certain that the cause of your misfortune is outside, and not in your own attitude. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: evil conscience attitude misfortune enemy relief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email