“Every illness is caused by something which is not an illness.”
Javier Marías (1951) Spanish writer
Toda enfermedad viene causada por algo que no es una enfermedad.
Source: Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White] (1992), p. 227
Section 126
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
“Every illness is caused by something which is not an illness.”
Javier Marías (1951) Spanish writer
Toda enfermedad viene causada por algo que no es una enfermedad.
Source: Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White] (1992), p. 227
“We shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
22 February 1942.
Disputed, (1941-1944) (published 1953)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Letter (16 September 1919), quoted in Eberhard Jäckel, Hitler's World View: A Blueprint for Power (Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 48
1910s
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Postscript
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Context: The ideal power with which we feel ourselves in connection, the 'God' of ordinary men, is, both by ordinary men and by philosophers, endowed with certain of those metaphysical attributes which in the lecture on philosophy I treated with such disrespect. He is assumed as a matter of course to be 'one and only,' and to be 'infinite'; and the notion of many finite gods is one which hardly any one thinks it worth while to consider, and still less to uphold. Nevertheless, in the interests of intellectual clearness, I feel bound to say that religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thing that it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace. Philosophy, with its passion for unity, and mysticism with its monoideistic bent, both 'pass to the limit' and identify the something with a unique God who is the all-inclusive soul of the world. Popular opinion, respectful to their authority, follows the example which they set.
“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.”
Albert Camus book The Stranger
The Stranger (1942)
“No study of the causes of intelligence has failed to find a substantial heritability.”
Matt Ridley book Genome
Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 6 “Intelligence” (p. 82)