Franz Alexander famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.
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It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.
-- Franz Alexander
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
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You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
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The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
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Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.
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The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
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