Disease Quotes - Page 17

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Seriousness is a disease.

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease. Then economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of goods

We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.

It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.