Dutch proverbs
Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot.
Where a man feels pain he lays his hand.
Hermann Ebbinghaus –
German psychologist
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
Summary of Psychology
Mary Baker Eddy –
US religious leader
Then comes the question, how do drugs, hygiene
and animal magnetism heal? It may be affirmed
that they do not heal, but only relieve suffering
temporarily, exchanging one disease for another.
Science and Healthwith Key to Scriptures
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind;
nor can the material senses bear reliable
testimony on the subject of health.
Science and Healthwith Key to Scriptures, Ch. VI
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear
made manifest on the body.
Science and Healthwith Key to Scriptures, Ch. XIV
Thomas Alva Edison –
American inventor
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine
per cent perspiration.
Aphorism
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but
will interest his patients in the care of the human
frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of
disease.
Aphorism
Jonathan Edwards –
US theologian
The bodies of those that made such a noise and
tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly
among the graves of their neighbours as any
others.
Practical SermonsSermon XV, Sect. V
Paul Ehrlich –
German bacteriologist
Much testing; accuracy and precision in
experiment; no guesswork or self-deception.
Quoted by Martha Marquardt in Paul EhrlichCh. XIII
Albert Einstein –
Mathematician and physicist
We should take care not to make the intellect our
god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no
personality.
Out of My Later Life
Do not stop to think about the reasons for what
you are doing, about why you are questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
Attributed
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans
Cross) –
English novelistIt is seldom a medical man has true religious
views—there is too much pride of intellect.
MiddlemarchCh. Many of us looking back through life would say
that the kindest man we have ever known has
been a medical man, or perhaps that surgeon
whose fine tact, directed by deeply-informed
perception, has come to us in our need with a
more sublime beneficience than that of
miracle-workers.
MiddlemarchCh. A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain to
feel much anger.
Spanish GypsyBk T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
–
US-born writer and poetI grow old...I grow old
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind?
Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon
the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each
to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock()The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer’s art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
Four Quartets , ‘EastCoker’ IVThe years between fifty and seventy are the
hardest. You are always being asked to do more,
and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them
down.
TimeOctober ()Birth, copulation and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass
tacks.
Sweeney Agonistes‘Fragment of an Agon’Havelock Ellis –
British psychologistThe place where optimism most flourishes is the
lunatic asylum.
The Dance of LifeCh.
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of
Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been
shut up in it at the outset of his public career.
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