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1 " It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated. "
― , Getting Well
2 " You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering. "
3 " Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs. "
― , Fasting for Renewal of Life
4 " What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon. "
5 " The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences. "
6 " Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds. "
7 " There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them. "
8 " There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands. "
9 " In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed. "
10 " Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life. "
― , Rubies in the Sand
11 " We cannot be damaged into health. "
12 " So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources. "
13 " Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick. "
14 " There are no healing agents. "
15 " The intelligent person, viewing the great number of so-called diseases that arise out of this prostration of the functions of life, and realising that they have one and all grown out of the habitual violations of the laws of life, will recognise at once that the first step in the restoration of health needs must be to make amends at once by the unconditional return to the simplicity and perfect obedience to the laws that have been so perseveringly violated. "
― , Food Combining Made Easy
16 " If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live. "
17 " Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome. "
― , The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene
18 " The power to assimilate crude inorganic matter as it is found in the soil, and convert it into living protoplasm and other organic substances, or to use such substances in performing physiological function, does not belong to the animal organism. It is the office of plant life or vegetation to convert the primary elements from their crude inorganic state into the organic state. This conversion cannot be accomplished by any synthetic process known to the laboratory. After the plant has raised the crude inorganic matter of the soil into plant protoplasm, the animal may take these and raise them to a still higher plane—that of animal protoplasm. But the animal cannot do the work of the plant. He must get his food either directly or indirectly from the plant kingdom. That is, the animal must either eat the plant or its fruits, or he must eat the animal that has eaten the plant. Food must be in the organic form. Air and water form the only exceptions to this rule. "
― , Food and Feeding
19 " The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself. "
― , History of Natural Hygiene and Principles of Natural Hygiene
20 " At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill. "