This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Conceit is the most incurable disease that is known to the human soul.
Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Does the world need more medicine and energy and buildings and food? No. There is enough food and medicine, there are enough resources for all. There is starvation and poverty and widespread disease because of human ignorance, prejudice, and fear. Out of greed and hatred we hoard materials; we create wars over imaginary geographic boundaries and act as if one group of people is truly different from another group somewhere else on the planet.
Disease | Energy | Enough | Fear | Greed | Ignorance | Need | People | Poverty | Prejudice | World |
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
The jealous man’s disease is of so malignant a nature that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Daring | Disease | Loneliness | People |
Louis D. Brandeis, fully Louis Dembitz Brandeis
You cannot eradicate disease from the human body unless you eradicate it from the body politic.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
Max Lerner, fully Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner, aka Mikhail Lerner
The human being as a commodity is the disease of our age.
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
Disease | Individual | Society |
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
Disease |
Now, we shall be able to judge the extent of the spiritual undernourishment if we look at all these movements from another angle: not as errors but rather as attempts to find healing. I use this comparison: For a long time medical men combated fever as if it itself constituted the illness. Medicine today inclines rather to respect it, not only as a symptom of the disease but of the struggle of the organism against the disease. True, it is this struggle which makes it ill, and yet this very struggle is also the proof of its vitality and is the necessary way to healing.
Consequences | Diet | Disease | Disobedience | God | Inevitable | Intemperance | Men | Respect | Struggle | Thought | Time | Work | Wrong | Respect |
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
Atheism | Disease | Error | Soul | Understanding |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
Conversation | Disease | Evil | People | Philosophy | Silence |