Pathology Quotes

• Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Cells, Doe, Chemistry

  "The Scientific Basis of Medicine Annual Reviews", Vol. 1969, Athlone Press, quoting "Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift", Coper, H., Herken, H. (1963), 1969.

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• Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

  Diana Trilling

  Ruling, Alcoholism, Drunkenness

  Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

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• I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

  Naomi Judd

  Secret, Grew Up, Grew

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• Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

  James Hillman

  Soul, Way, Problem

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• Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

  B. W. Powe

  Certainty

  "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.

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• You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

  Richard Selzer

  Passion, Body, Spirit

  Richard Selzer (1996). “Letters to a Young Doctor”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Indifference

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Fun, Lying

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• Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Delight, Carefree, Mistrust

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• Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.

  Gregory Bateson

  Healthy, Religion, Doe

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• Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?

  Craig Ferguson

  Cameras, Sometimes, Spills

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• The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of
  course you never do.

  Gregory Bateson

  Want, Courses

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• Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

  Christopher Lasch

  Birthday, Character, Age

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

  Erich Fromm

  Errors, People, Facts

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Cancer, Stronger, Cockroaches

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• Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Unemployment, Shock

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• Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Dream, Teaching, People

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• If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Money, Crazy, Cat

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• The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

  Tom DeMarco

  Guarantees That, Schedules, Deadline

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects”, p.57, Addison-Wesley

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• The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Thinking, Shy, Gone

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• We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Historical, Perception, Society

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2013). “The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, p.97, The New Press

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• Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

  Jane Fonda

  Survival, Denial, Sometimes

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Skins, Scar

  Tender Is the Night bk. 2, ch. 11 (1934)

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• My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it.

  Kathy Acker

  Cancer, Way, Beats

  "The Gift of Disease". Essay by Kathy Acker, The Guardian, January 18, 1997.

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