My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.