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“Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?”

Men World Death Dies Heaven Christ Vision Dying Disease Illusion Angel Nervous Glorious Good Man Rejoice Creeds Temperament Confined Tenacity Bad Man

Book:Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible

Source: Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible

“The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.”

Men Art Expression Disease Elements Arise Artistic Sufficient Temperament Artistic Temperament

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it”

Persons Body Used Fighting Strong Serious Disease Medicine Driven Organs Temperament

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”

Writing Literature Disease Artistic Temperament Artistic Temperament

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.”

Source: The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)

“Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?”

Art Philosophy Black Disease Depression Illness Mental Illness Affected Temperament

Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]