Pathology Quotes

Everything is pathology, except for indifference. (Emil Cioran)
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. View quote
Christopher Lasch
My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it. View quote
Kathy Acker
Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one. View quote
Rudolf Virchow
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. View quote
Robert Farrar Capon
There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people. View quote
Samuel Wilson
We are so close to the world of work that we can't see what it does to us. We have to rely on outside observers from other times or other cultures to appreciate the extremity and the pathology of our present position. View quote
Bob Black
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. View quote
Susan Cain
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center. View quote
Eddie Van Halen
One cannot assert authority by accepting one's own fallibility. Simply, people need to be blinded by knowledge - we are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages of being in groups trump the disadvantages of being alone. It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams. View quote
Irvin D. Yalom
My business is not prognosis, but diagnosis. I am not engaged in therapeutics, but in pathology. View quote
H. L. Mencken
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology. View quote
B. W. Powe
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. View quote
Erich Fromm
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. View quote
Erich Fromm
The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. View quote
Mason Cooley
The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West - it is taking its most lethal form in India. View quote
Noam Chomsky
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself. View quote
James Hillman
One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology. View quote
Lynne McTaggart
There is little disagreement about what constitutes a healthy state of the organism. But there is much less agreement when one uses the notion of pathology analogically, to describe kinds of behavior that are regarded as deviant. For people do not agree on what constitutes healthy behavior... The medical metaphor limits what we can see much as the statistical view does. It accepts the lay judgment of something as deviant and, by use of analogy, locates its source within the individual, thus preventing us from seeing the judgment itself as a crucial part of the phenomenon. View quote
Howard S. Becker
Friendship between those of the same sex attains an erotic tone, which comes into consciousness, and which also occasionally increases to the point of desire. Here, for older medicine, was where pathology began, for older jurisprudence, where criminality began, without providing any reason for either. View quote
Hans Blüher