Top 31 Herbert M. Shelton Quotes
#1. Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.
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#2. 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.
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#6. Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.
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#8. For the most part the regular profession has either ignored or else denounced fasting. Fasting is a fad or it is quackery. They do not study it, do not employ it and do not endorse it. On the contrary, they declare that the sick must eat to keep up their strength.
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#9. It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
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#10. Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.
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#13. Health and disease are the same thing - vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.
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#17. There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.
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#18. An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.
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#19. Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.
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#20. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.
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#28. In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.
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#29. You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.
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#30. Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.
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#31. Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.
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