Recovery Quotes (5)
Break the chains of your prejudices and take up the torch of experience, and you will honour nature in the way she deserves, instead of drawing derogatory conclusions from the ignorance in which she has left you. Simply open your eyes and ignore what you cannot understand, and you will see that a labourer whose mind and knowledge extend no further than the edges of his furrow is no different essentially from the greatest genius, as would have been proved by dissecting the brains of Descartes and Newton; you will be convinced that the imbecile or the idiot are animals in human form, in the same way as the clever ape is a little man in another form; and that, since everything depends absolutely on differences in organisation, a well-constructed animal who has learnt astronomy can predict an eclipse, as he can predict recovery or death when his genius and good eyesight have benefited from some time at the school of Hippocrates and at patients' bedsides.
Machine Man (1747), in Ann Thomson (ed.), Machine Man and Other Writings (1996), 38.
See also: | Ape (12) | Astronomy (44) | Death (62) | Eclipse (5) | Experience (27) | Genius (33) | Hippocrates (2) | Idiot (3) | Ignorance (37) | Knowledge (213) | Mind (56) | Nature (156) | Patient (26) | Prejudice (3)
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing (2005), 55.
Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1857), 431.
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
Quoted in Patricia T. O'Conner, 'Recovery Is Ennobling, Suffering Is Not', New York Times (28 Apr 1985 ), BR9.
See also: | Suffering (2)
The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.
Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing (2005), 55.
See also: | Prescription (7)
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