Plato Body Quotations

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body...

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.