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“Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.”

States Ignorance Theory Disease Understood Will Power Terrain

Book:Illness as metaphor

Source: Illness as metaphor

“Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.”

Pain Disease Understood Harmony Medicine Discord

Author:Narayanananda Swami.

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”

People Ifs Wish Hurt Easier Disease Understood Sympathetic Smallpox Measles

Author:Jennifer Niven

“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”

Lasts Fantasy Century Disease Understood Medicine Response Inspired Cancer Eras Premises Capricious Tuberculosis

Book:Illness as metaphor

Source: Illness as metaphor

“I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.”

People Ifs Way Years Might Felt Audience Struggle Disease Understood Evidence Addiction Decades Contrary Recovery Despite Heartbreaking Stigma

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial.”

“I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.”

Ifs Doe Answers Disease Understood Infinite Convinced Insane Insanity Switzerland Philosophic

Book:How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture

Source: How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture

“...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.”

Fall Difficult Powerful Brain Disease Understood Most Powerful Deadly Diseases

Book:The theory and practice of medicine

Source: The theory and practice of medicine

“All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean -- or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.”

Needs America Levels Disease Waste Ocean Lows Understood Nuclear Radiation Sprinkles Nuclear Waste

Author:Arthur B. Robinson