“If any man can convince me or bring home to me that I do not think or act o’ right, gladly will I change; for I search after the truth by which man never yet was harmed, but he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.”
Marcus Aurelius Antonius

“First, do no harm.”
Hippocratic Oath

“From the time immemorial man has looked for a savior; and when not looking for a savior, he is looking for a cure. He believes in paternalism. He is looking to get something for nothing, not knowing that the highest price we ever pay for anything is to have it given to us for free. Instead of accepting salvation, it is better to deserve it. Instead of buying, begging to stealing a cure, it is better to stop building disease. Disease is of man’s own buildings, and one worse thing than the stupidity of buying a cure is to remain so ignorant as to believe in cures without looking to the cause. The false theories of salvation and cures has built man into a mental medicant, being a slave to a profession that has neither worked out its own salvation from disease nor discovered a single cure in all the age long period of man’s existence on earth.”
Dr. Tilden

“Let food be your medicine and let medicine be your food. Only nature heals, provided it is given the opportunity.”
Hippocrates, 500 BC

“You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”
Chinese proverb

“Cholesterol [the good kind] turns to vitamin D - a vitamin needed for proper bone formation - when sunlight or ultraviolet light strikes the skin. Without this vitamin the bones do not become calcified and will bend easily. This condition is called rickets.”
Dr. Kime, Sunlight

“Nothing has such a power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under observation in life.”
Marcus Aurelius Antonius

“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.”
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Unless the doctors of today become the dietitians of tomorrow, the dietitians of today will become the doctors of tomorrow.”
Dr. Alexis Carrel, in 1936

“If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat, diseased tissue, rather than being the cause of diseased tissue.”
Dr. Rudolph Virchow

“In nature there are neither rewards or punishments, there are consequences.”
Robert Ingersoll

“The history of mankind is an immense sea of errors in which a few obscure truths may here and there be found.”
Cesare Beccaria

“When a man’s science exceeds his sense, he perishes by his own ignorance.”
Asian proverb

“The ten thousand things rise and fall without cease creating yet not possessing, working yet not taking credit. Work is done, then forgotten, therefore it lasts forever.”
Nei Ching

“The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth, the named is 10,000 things.”
Chinese Proverb

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat. “And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”
Genesis 1:29, 30

“Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”
Thomas Huxley

“There is no disease without a cause. We are what we eat, but more importantly, what we absorb.”
Dr. Bernard Jensen

“Good dyet is a perfect way of curing, And worthy much regard and health assuring. A king that cannot rule him in his dyet, Will hardly rule his realme in peace and quiet.”
Regimen Sanitis Salernitanum, 11th Century

“The constitution of man’s body has not changed to meet the new conditions of his artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perpetual discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is general deterioration of man’s body, the symptoms of which are termed disease.”
Dr. Hilton Hotema

“Oh, health! Health is the blessing of the rich! The riches of the poor! Who can sit by thee at too dear a rate, since there is no enjoying this world without thee?”
Ben Johnson

“To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that truth - this doubtless is the right way to live.”
Henry James

“Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforth grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to live the whole world with love that will then be all-embracing and universal.”
Dostoevsky

“Life does not occur without life. Every part of the body is dependent on the whole.”
“Nature and evolution dislike waste and whenever possible they use tissues for other purposes when the type of structure and form of life change. The only permanent thing in life is change.”
“Nothing endures unless it is of use in the world and in the economy of Nature.”
“Civilized man does not add to the beauties of Nature, but generally destroys, prevents, or disarranges the progress of natural changes.”
Dr. Charles Mayo

“Humans are made up of a procession of phantoms, in the midst of which there strides an unknowable reality.”
Dr. Alexis Carrel, Man The Unknown

“Physicists have come to see that all their theories of natural phenomena, including the laws they describe, are creations of human mind . . . The physicist begins his inquiry into the essential nature of things by studying the material world. Penetrating even deeper realms of matter, he has become aware of the essential unity of all things and events. More than that, he has also learned that he himself, and his consciousness, are an integral part of this unity.”
Fritjof Capra

“May we say that the soul has been forever in a state of knowledge? And if the truth about reality is always in our soul, the soul must be immortal, and one must take courage and try to discover - that is, to recollect what one doesn’t happen to know or (more correctly) remember, at the moment.”
Socrates

“Inconceivable as it may seem to ordinary reason, you and all other conscious beings as such are all in all. Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.”
Erwin Schroedinger, My View Of The World

Top

All Rights Reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced, in part or in whole, by any means, except for brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews, without the express written consent of the author.
Copyright © 2001-2007 Ruza V. Bogdanovich