Galen Quotes

• The physician is only nature's assistant.

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  Physicians, Assistants, Homeopathy

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• Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

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• All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

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  Health, Doe, Helping

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• Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

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  Health, Physicians, Essentials

  "Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations". Book by Edward Parsons Day, p. 223, 1884.

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• Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

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  Inspirational, Science, Sound

  Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The best physician is also a philosopher.

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  Physicians, Philosopher

  Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

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  Keys, Looks, Nervous

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• Who Are You?
  What do you want?
  Where Are You Going?
  Who do you serve and who do you trust?

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  Want

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• After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

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  Sex, Animal, Roosters

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• If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

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  Dream, Nightmare, Sometimes

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• The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

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  Powerful, Writing, Fate

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• Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

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  Blood, Laziness

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• He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

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  Flower, Cake, Two

  "Arabian Society In The Middle Ages". Book by by Edward William Lane, 1883.

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• The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

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  Merit, Language, Chiefs

  Galen (1916). “Galen On the Natural Faculties”

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• The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted

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  Careers, Together, Messages

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• (Wine is) the nurse of old age.

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  Wine, Nurse, Age

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• I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator

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  Spiritual, Distance, Emotional

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• A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

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  Brain, Cold, Companion

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• All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.

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  Sex, Animal, Roosters

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• The chief merit of language is clearness.

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  Merit, Language, Chiefs

  Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library

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• When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

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  Tunes, Landscape, Way

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• Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it

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  Artist, Years, People

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• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

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  Artist, Environmental, Messages

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• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world

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  Philosophy, Mean, Artist

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