Jean-Martin Charcot famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.
-- Jean-Martin Charcot

#Health #Reality #Suffering
Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.
-- Jean-Martin Charcot

#Theory
How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.
-- Jean-Martin Charcot

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If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.
-- Jean-Martin Charcot

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
I had the constitution of a missionary.
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.
What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?

Jean-Martin Charcot famous quotes

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