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 …

- Phineas Quimby

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…

- Phineas Quimby

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

- Phineas Quimby

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 …

- Phineas Quimby

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…

- Phineas Quimby

The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.

- Phineas Quimby

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…

- Phineas Quimby

Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

- Phineas Quimby

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 …

- Phineas Quimby