Dialectic Quote by Theodor Adorno

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

— Anonymous

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than…

— Thomas Carlyle

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

— Jessamyn West

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

— Hannah Green

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

— Thomas Fuller

“Instead of seeing sickness as a problem, something to correct, we accept it as a fact of life. We’ve all agreed to this arbitrary…

— Pam Grout

“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

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

— Avicenna

“Illness contains the seed of health.”

— Ted Kaptchuk

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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