Causality Quote by Susan Sontag

The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal.

— E. Cheraskin

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part…

— Elbert Hubbard

Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so simple and…

— Paul W. Ewald

“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction,…

— Oliver Sacks

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

— William Thomas Councilman

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

— Rene Dubos

“Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.”

— John E. Sarno

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“People try to treat their illnesses without first trying to understand the cause of them. Behind every effect there is a cause. You can…

— Suzy Kassem

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

— Hippocrates

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

— Anton Chekhov

The medicine increases the disease.

— Virgil