Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes to Explore
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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
Martha Gellhorn
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In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
Hippocrates
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Plato
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
Plato
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
Plato
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Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
Vinod Khosla
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Music was the vehicle for propaganda
Christian Picciolini
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Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul Auster
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
Baruch Spinoza
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Sigmund Freud
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Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.
Richard Morris
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Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.
Thomas Carlyle
