Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the…

Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and ends in…

— Henry E. Sigerist

Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would…

— Rick Perlstein

Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative…

— Thomas Aquinas

You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.; you know…

— Ludwig von Mises

Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence…

— Dalai Lama

Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time…

— William Hazlitt

The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life…

— Bertrand Russell

A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive…

— Deepak Chopra

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…

— Seneca the Younger

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a…

— Rene Dubos

The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games. The expression…

— Rei Kawakubo

No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book…

— Christopher Hitchens

After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its…

— Robert Hass

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson