The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false...
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Neel Burton
Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
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Paul Farmer
Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under...
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Hans Zinsser
One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.
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Elizabeth Bradley
More Quotes By Alan W. Watts
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing,...
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
