Ancient Quote by Samuel Johnson

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely…

— Samuel Johnson

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a…

— Charles MacKay

“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society…

— António R. Damásio

The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in…

— Joseph Campbell

the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

— Robert Musil

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is…

— Alan Watts

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due…

— Albert Einstein

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

— Annie Dillard

The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

— Sengcan

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical"…

— Susan Sontag

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

— Frances Wright