Magician Quote by Mircea Eliade

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

— Terence McKenna

“It is of the first order of importance to remember this, that the shaman is more than merely a sick man, or a madman;…

— Terence McKenna

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion…

— Terence McKenna

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

— Laozi

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

— George Herbert

A healer of others, himself diseased.

— Plutarch

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is…

— Plato

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

— Aeschylus

“The man, however, who would undertake their conversion, must possess an accurate knowledge of their systems or schemes of doctrine. For it is impossible…

— The Church Fathers

In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun,…

— James G. Frazer

The 'advancing man' in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose,…

— Wallace D. Wattles

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

— Henry Ward Beecher