Phineas Quimby Quotes

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• Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in…
• Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my…
• Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable…
• Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as…
• Man is made of opinions,—of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him.... Man goes on developing error…
• It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is…
• The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
• The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the…
• MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If…
• The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.
• Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

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