“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”

“(…) Just like a deficiency disease is cured through the supply of the missing factor, so are the diseases of living cured by a good dose of intelligent detachment (viveka-vairagya).”

“Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.”
Morbi perniciosiores pluresque sunt animi quam corporis.

“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”

“Through my mother's disease I came to know her as Spirit. The name of her disease hardly matters—no more than the name of the disease of your loved one. What matters is seeing through the disease to the sufferer's very essence, to their Soul.”

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

“We've all got the disease - the disease of being finite. Death is the basis of all horror.”

“But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.”

“optimism is a disease”

“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”