The best Quotes by Ivan Illich

The best Quotes by Ivan Illich

Ivan Dominic Illich (4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that constrains learning to narrow situations in a fairly short period of the human lifespan.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust bowl.
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

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They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vienna - which is kinda the same.
Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
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You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery.
Spencer Hastings in Pretty Little Liars - Season 1 Episode 1
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Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.
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Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
I Corinthians - 13, 4-7
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May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
Fred Young in Blow
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And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope...
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Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
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The expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.
Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 3 Episode 13
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Let experience wash over you, absorb it like a sponge. Expect nothing, only then can you be prepared for anything.
Altered Carbon - Season 1 Episode 1
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No expectations, no disappointments.
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen everyday, just not always when we need them to happen.
Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 3 Episode 17
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What would you prefer - a doctor who holds your hand while you die, or one who ignores you while you get better? I suppose it would particularly suck to have a doctor, who ignores you while you die.
Gregory House in Dr. House - Season 1 Episode 3
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Sometimes, the cure is a little taste of the disease. The difference between medicine and poison sometimes is only dosage.
Arthur Harrow in Moon Knight - Season 1 Episode 2
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I didn't become a doctor because I wanted to be god. I became a doctor because I wanted to save lives.
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Sarkov: "That's doctor-patient privilege."
Juan: "I thought you were a scientist."
Sarkov: "It's all the same. We all wear white coats and have trouble with eye contact."
Alex Sarkov in The Imperfects - Season 1 Episode 1
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

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