Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Galen

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Last updated on November 4, 2024.

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus, often Anglicized as Galen or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic.

Greek - Physician | 130 - 200

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Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

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The physician is only nature's assistant.

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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted

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The best physician is also a philosopher.

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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

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He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it

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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world

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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

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The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

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The chief merit of language is clearness.

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A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

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Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

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Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?

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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator

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All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.

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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

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Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Galen

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