Courses Quote by Gregory Bateson

I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases,…

— Hippocrates

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

— James Hillman

“The diagnostic enterprise hinges on an optimistic notion: that disease is part of a natural world that only awaits our understanding. But even if…

— Gary Greenberg

“Pathology is a fact independent of the observer, but how one responds to symptoms is drawn from knowledge and experience.”

— Suzanne O'Sullivan

Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we…

— Larry Dossey

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer…

— Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation…

— Florence Nightingale

Health has its science, as well as disease.

— Elizabeth Blackwell