Mental state Quote by Susan Sontag

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not…

— Susan Sontag

“Remember, many diseases can be cure with the power of the mind! - (Sailor Moon #1, page 68)”

— Naoko Takeuchi

“You allow that we designate a disease as mortal when Nature is so severely attacked, and her strength so far exhausted, that she cannot…

— Charles William Eliot

Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

— Edward Bach

“When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.”

— Richard Diaz

“Disease is a speech of the psyche. ...the psyche is a polyglot, for if it converts fear into symptoms it also converts hope.”

— Saul Bellow

“Despite our attachment to the notion of free will, most of us know that disorders of the brain can trump the best intentions of…

— Sam Harris

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

“Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as a knockout.”

— Norman Mailer

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

— Mary Baker Eddy

“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 effort to cure disease has been, without doubt, the greatest curse that has ever been perpetrated upon the human race. The idea that…

— Herbert M. Shelton