Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o’-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.
Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.
Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.
The word “wilderness” occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.
What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.
The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.
Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.
In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.