Galen Quotes on Nature
Aelius Galenus, known as Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher of the Roman Empire and the most influential medical author of antiquity. This page collects quotes attributed to Galen on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Galen, On the Natural Faculties , Bk. 1, sect. 13; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 57.”
The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge , but they will not even stop to learn! -
“Galen, On the Natural Faculties , Bk. 2, sect. 3; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 139.”
That which is , grows, while that which is not , becomes. -
“Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.”
Latter day attributions | In: Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations, (1884), p. 223. -
“Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.”
Latter day attributions