"Human misery universally arises from some error that……" — Phineas Quimby
"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 the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of."
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11 Quotes by Phineas Quimby
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Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by…
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Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not…
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Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery…
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Man is made of opinions,—of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him....…
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It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of…
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The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
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The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws…
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MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell…
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The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.
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Science is wisdom reduced to practice.
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