Sick Man Quotes - Page 3

• The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Men, Sick

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

  Ibn Warraq

  Dream, Men, Sick

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Why I Am Not a Muslim”, p.11, Prometheus Books

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• I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Moving, Science, Men

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• It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Medicine, Sick

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CIV

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• He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

  Plato

  Men, Sick, Firsts

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.3399, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Sick, Erotic

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Men, Sick, Saws

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• I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

  Euripides

  Men, Sick, Ease

  Euripides (2012). “The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse”, p.41, tredition

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• We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not.

  William James

  Life, Men, Vanity

  "Essays in Religion and Morality".

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• I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.100

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• If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Learning, Health, Science

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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• The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

  Mircea Eliade

  Men, Medicine, Sick

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• The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Simple, Greatness

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• We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.

  Christine Feehan

  Men, Sick, Making Love

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