Herbert M. Shelton

Quotes

• “So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and...”
• “Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, ...”
• “The effort to cure disease has been, without doubt, the greatest curse that has ever been perpetrated upon the human rac...”
• “A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, ord...”
• “If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws ...”
• “You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their...”
• “What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right...”
• “Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no mor...”
• “The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have ...”
• “The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy functio...”
• “General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents...”
• “There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and...”
• “At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive to...”
• “Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.”
• “Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.”
• “Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.”
• “You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.”
• “Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.”
• “There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.”
• “Life should be built on the conservation of energy.”
• “Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”
• “Natural laws admit of no exceptions.”
• “We cannot be damaged into health.”
• “There are no healing agents.”