“The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.”
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Ben Hecht 32
American screenwriter 1894–1964Related quotes
“Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.”
The Mistress. For Hope; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“241. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
Context: I have a very one-track mind that needs to concentrate. I asked myself which issue is more important: whether mental states are more left- or right-hemispheric, or whether they are causal in brain function. From weighing the pros and cons, I decided that the left-brain, right-brain work was well in orbit and that it would be more important to shift my primary focus to consciousness.
The mind-brain issues are intrinsically more compelling. They carry strong humanistic as well as scientific implications. I could foresee changes in our world view, guiding beliefs, and social values. In the context of today's worsening world conditions and our imperiled future, this work seemed far more important than whether you can find a brain theory enabling people to learn faster, draw better, make better medical diagnoses, and so on.
We're beginning to learn the hard way that today's global ills are not cured by more and more science and technology.
As quoted in Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company (2004) by Owen W. Linzmayer
2000s
"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" in Profiles of the Future (1962)
On Clarke's Laws
“Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go”
Source: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 5
“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
Maxim 441
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave