Jacob Bigelow quotes

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
-- Jacob Bigelow

#Errors #Order #Causes

Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.
-- Jacob Bigelow

#Hands #Medicine #Waiting

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.