Herbert M. Shelton > Quotes

“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”
― Herbert M. Shelton

“Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Fasting for Renewal of Life

“You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results. ”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.”
― Herbert M Shelton

“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.”
― Herbert M. Shelton

“What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Fasting for Renewal of Life

“The skin is an integral part of the body and depends upon the general system for its supply of food and to carry away its waste. Skin health depends primarily upon the general health of the body. All attempts to deal with the skin as an independent entity, without due regard to its reliance upon the general system, must of necessity result in failure. The skin is nourished by the blood and there is no other source from which it can draw sustenance. "Skin foods" are all frauds. These are composed chiefly of grease. No fat can be assimilated by the skin or other tissues of the body until it has first been broken down into its constituent fatty acids in the process of digestion. Even were this not true, the skin contains very little fat and these "skin foods" would still not constitute proper nourishment for it. Blood is the only skin food.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene

“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.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“To starve is to die; to fast is to live.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Fasting and Sun Bathing

“Life should be built on the conservation of energy.”
― Herbert M Shelton

“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.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Food and Feeding

“In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Fasting for Renewal of Life

“There are no healing agents.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand

“There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do. ”
― Herbert M Shelton

“If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene

“Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand

“A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand

“We cannot be damaged into health.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand

“For the most part the regular profession has either ignored or else denounced fasting. Fasting is a fad or it is quackery. They do not study it, do not employ it and do not endorse it. On the contrary, they declare that "the sick must eat to keep up their strength.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Fasting and Sun Bathing

“Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand

“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.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand

“One will starve to death with just as much certainty and much more speedily, if one attempts to live upon foods containing only one or two elements of nutrition, as if one were totally abstaining from food. A diet of white flour and water, or white sugar and water, will result in death much sooner than a diet of water only. If no food is eaten the body feeds upon its own food reserves, but it has no provision for meeting the exigencies created by prolonged subsistence on one-sided diets.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Fasting and Sun Bathing

“So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand

“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.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“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.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, History of Natural Hygiene and Principles of Natural Hygiene