Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 16, 1802 Death: January 16, 1866
One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to de….
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing ….
It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock ….
Science is wisdom reduced to practice..
Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable or ….
The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts ….
MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible….
Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my mode of warfare? With t….
Man is made of opinions,—of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him.... Man goes on developing error upon error ti….
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as our misery ….
The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies..
The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form..