Herbert M. Shelton Quotes

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

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.

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.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

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.

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

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.

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.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

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.

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.

We cannot be damaged into health.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

There are no healing agents.

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.

Natural laws admit of no exceptions.

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.

You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.