This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
I am told that nothing that we do on earth, and nothing that we make on earth, is in as great abundance as force. We now have 30,000 pounds of destructive force, TNT equivalent, available for every human being on earth. We don't have 30,000 pounds of food or medicine or art or books or any of the things that ennoble life, but we have 30,000 pounds of instant force for every human being on earth.
Abundance | Art | Books | Earth | Force | Life | Life | Nothing | Art |
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
Disease | Individual | Society |
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
Disease |
Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
The art of medicine is a question of timeliness.
Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
Nothing in the whole world is meaningless, and suffering least of all. That something hidden away in my nature, like a treasure in a field, is humility. It is the last thing left in me, and the best: the ultimate discovery at which I have arrived, the starting point for a fresh development.
Discovery | Humility | Nature | Nothing | Suffering | World | Discovery |
Now, we shall be able to judge the extent of the spiritual undernourishment if we look at all these movements from another angle: not as errors but rather as attempts to find healing. I use this comparison: For a long time medical men combated fever as if it itself constituted the illness. Medicine today inclines rather to respect it, not only as a symptom of the disease but of the struggle of the organism against the disease. True, it is this struggle which makes it ill, and yet this very struggle is also the proof of its vitality and is the necessary way to healing.
Consequences | Diet | Disease | Disobedience | God | Inevitable | Intemperance | Men | Respect | Struggle | Thought | Time | Work | Wrong | Respect |
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
Atheism | Disease | Error | Soul | Understanding |
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years, through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject’s vitality. And when at last the illness suddenly shows itself, it would be a most superficial medicine which treated it without going back to its remote causes, to all that I call “personal problems.” There are personal problems in every life. There are secret tragedies in every heart. “Man does not die,” a doctor has remarked. “He kills himself”... Every act of physical, psychological, or moral disobedience of God’s purpose is an act of wrong living and has its inevitable consequences.
Consequences | Diet | Disobedience | God | Heart | Inevitable | Intemperance | Life | Life | Man | Problems | Purpose | Purpose | Thought | Wrong |
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
Conversation | Disease | Evil | People | Philosophy | Silence |
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Sanity | Statistics | Suffering | Think |