Best Rene Dubos Quotes
- ... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed… Any
- Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. Civilization
- Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts… Attempts
- Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols… Believe
- There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the… Body
- It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend… Achieved
- Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual… Ability
- One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration. Aberration
- But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner… Adapts
- But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive… Absence
- Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing. Art
- As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual… Abstract
- With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time… Association
- The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury… Continual
- Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny… Affect
- Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the… Abandoning
- ... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend… Biological
- As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges,… Adventure
- You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose… Any
- Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. Culture
- More can be learned from what works than from what fails. Fails