Epilepsy quotes

Epilepsy

15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian

"I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths."

W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright

"I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?"

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Epilepsy

"For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows you to admit the existence of the Devil. If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God."

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