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“I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.”

Mind Reason Pain Loss Disease Late Skins Wounds Forgetfulness Liable

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.”

Thinking Form Disease Complexes Vulnerable Code Suggestions Liable Infectious Diseases

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Persons Seems Causes Conditions Mankind Human Nature Particular Disease Surprise Corruption Pleasant Good Man Liable Disagreeable

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.”

Men Years Wells Play Disease Dating Advancing Liable Obsolescence

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.”

Thinking Humans Worst Creatures Disease Liable

Book:The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857

Source: The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857