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“Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?”

Body Imagination Brain Disease Sick Your Body Organs

Author:Ruby Wax

“No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.”

Difficult Imagination Disease Illusion Conscience Guilt Complicated Cures Fancy Dread Distinguished

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: An essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by A. Murphy] Poems.- v. 2-4. The rambler.- v. 5. The idler. History of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia.- v. 6-8. The lives of the English poets.- v. 9. Lives of eminent persons. Letters, selected from the collection of Mrs. Piozzi and others. Prayers and meditations.- v. 10. Philological tracts, &c.- v. 11. Miscellaneous tracts, &c. Dedications. Reviews and criticisms. Tales of imagination. The adventurers.-

“avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.”

Imagination Disease Greed Avarice

Book:Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

Source: Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

“Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?”

Needs Book Enough Body Eye Born Imagination Journey Disease Hot Metaphor Wave Chairs Shade Drag Floats Seductive Ambiguous Dressed Up

Book:The Silent Duchess

Source: The Silent Duchess

“Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.”

Thinking Causes Imagination Support Sadness Disease Spring Defined Poison Gloom Vexation

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.”

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Author:Paracelsus

“Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill [...].The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery.”

“When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have.”

People Said Black Imagination Disease Nails Psychics Admitting Hereditary Anathema

Author:Neil Gaiman

“So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.”

Way Mind Kind May Persons Ideas Soul Reason Seems Evil Imagination Subjects Disease Exciting Access All Kinds Temptation Reason Why Satan Melancholy Suggestions Evil Thoughts

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.”

Social Imagination Moral Growing Disease Aging Growing Old Growing Older Ordeals Pathology

Author:Susan Sontag

“We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.”

Helping Use Science Values Imagination Technology Disease Behavior Reflection Cures Old Fashioned

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.”

Imagination Health Disease Logic Convince Diseased Rugged

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain