Affected Quote by Aristotle

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“There is no disease more to be dreaded than madness. For what greater unhappiness can befall a man than to be deprived of his…

— Richard Mead

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or…

— James Joyce

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone…

— Nick Flynn

“no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar,…

— Leo Tolstoy

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which…

— David Hume

I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed…

— Hannah Hurnard

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

“How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years? Here is the answer to this question given by a philosopher-psychiatrist, Dr.…

— Aldous Huxley