Philip Roth Quotes

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

We fix symptoms but almost never deal with the underlying cause. We put out fires but we don’t prevent them.

Everything has a cause.

What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

There's something going on and it's bad. And I'm saying we have to get to the bottom of it.

There is one basic cause of all effects.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.

I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

I know I'm going to get in trouble!

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is [as] admirable and sound as it is dangerous – from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us.