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“Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles.”

Heart Ideas Soul Body Trouble Healthy Doctors Medicine Available Confusion Reasoning Spells Accurate Hierarchy Make Me Happy Hunches Epicureanism Body Work

Author:Alain de Botton

“Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.”

Body Feminism Female Ancient Terror Sexuality Mythology Vampire Accurate Sinister Archetype Female Sexuality

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.”

Source: To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft

“Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.”

Body Faces Choices Paint Accurate Canvas Sculpture Polished Food Choices

Book:Eating for Beauty

Source: Eating for Beauty

“... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it.”

Mean Has Beens Made Body Would Be Together Progress Huge Authority Traditional Spite Accurate Corrections

Book:The Venture of Rational Faith

Source: The Venture of Rational Faith