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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

Dying people don’t need medicine, the ones who remain do.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Cinema never saved anyone’s life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone’s life. It is only an aspirin.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

The greatest achievement is selflessness.The greatest worth is self-mastery.The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.The greatest precept is continual awareness.The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.The greatest generosity is non-attachment.The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.The greatest patience is humility.The greatest effort is not concerned with results.The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them.

We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

It’s supposed to be a secret, but I’ll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn’t know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don’t pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

An emotion is your body’s reaction to your mind.

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.