Quotes About Disease

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

A change of locale may produce a new flower," he counseled, "but the roots will have the same disease.

It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good will convert the bad.

La medicina académica evita cuidadosamente la interpretación del síntoma, con lo que destierra tanto el síntoma como la enfermedad al ámbito de lo incongruente. Con ello, la señal pierde su auténtica función; los síntomas se convierten en señales incomprensibles.

Ni los bacilos ni las radiaciones provocan la enfermedad, sino que el ser humano los utiliza como medios para realizar su enfermedad. (La misma frase, aplicada a otro plano, suena mucho más natural: ni los colores ni el lienzo hacen el cuadro sino que el artista los utiliza como medios para realizar su pintura.) Después

The transformation of the mind is the ultimate healing. I may be the one saying all this, but the actual healing has to come from you, from your own mind. The healing comes through your meditation, through your positive thinking, which basically means through your own wisdom and compassion. Meditation on emptiness and on loving kindness and compassion ends the need for healing. Through this ultimate healing, you will never have to experience disease again. (p. 10)

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The Irish killed themselves with liquor, with accidents prompted by drink, with neglect, with disease, with violence, but would never end their lives by their own hands, for that would ensure that misery followed them to eternity.

Racism is a disease. Go to your doctor with an ailment, and let the doctor tell you, 'Well, look, I'm not going to treat you; we're just not going to talk about it. It's going to go away.' You would look at him like he's crazy. By not talking about racism, it's not going to go away.

You've got to take care of yourself, man. There's a lot of stuff going around here nowadays with cancer and hormones and things like that they're putting in a lot of foods. You've got to be real careful and stay as healthy as possible.

From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.

I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.

Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as a knockout.

To be sick is to be diseased, ill at ease, unable to be with others in a harmonious way. It is, eventually, to find oneself fragmented and alone. To be healthy, on the other hand, is to be able to move freely, sympathetically, and shamelessly among others.

La lógica de la cuarentena —una palabra derivada de la expresión italiana <>— consistía en aislar a los enfermos para que no contagiaran a otros.

To have Achilles's gratitude was clearly a terminal disease.

you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

The original regulations had required it in every case of "unidentified disease or suspicion of contagion," but those had been passed in the first hysteria after the Pandemic

Keep careful track of any contacts you do have. We're still uncertain of the mode of transmission, but most myxoviruses spread by droplet and direct contact. Wash your hands with soap and water frequently.

Like alcoholism and drug addiction, nihilism is a disease of the soul. It can never be completely cured, and there is always the possibility of relapse. But there is always a chance for conversion -- a chance for people to believe that there is hope for the future and a meaning to struggle... Nihilism is not overcome by arguments or analyses; it is tamed by love and care.