The art is long, life is short
HippocratesRead
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
Interpretation
Human perception is shaped by our senses, which also influence our understanding of knowledge.
Hippocrates emphasizes the importance of our sensory experiences in shaping our knowledge and understanding of the world. Each sense provides distinct information that contributes to our overall perception, suggesting that knowledge is not merely a product of intellect but is deeply rooted in sensory experiences and interactions with our environment.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the philosophy of perception in a psychology class.
The art is long, life is short
The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.
That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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