Famous quotes containing the words mental and/or illness:
“Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that, owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of unperturbedness or quietude.”
—Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd cen., A.d.)
“The fact that illness is associated with the poorwho are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in ones midstreinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)