A Quote by Herbert Marcuse

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

Herbert Marcuse

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Caused Civilization His Individual Sickness Sustained Ultimately

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Herbert Marcuse
German - Philosopher
July 19, 1898 - July 29, 1979

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

Hermann Hesse

I think we have in Germany too many sickness funds. We started with more than 1,000 sickness funds. But the fewer sickness funds there are, the less bureaucracy and the easier the system is to operate. But it is important that the best sickness funds survive.

Karl Lauterbach

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

Theodore Kaczynski

The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

Saint Francis de Sales

A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart! No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!

Rumi

Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

Spencer W. Kimball

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Mark Buchanan

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

Elie Wiesel

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

Lord Chesterfield

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Augustus William Hare

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

Djuna Barnes

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

Laozi

civilization is a transient sickness.

Robinson Jeffers

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.