Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable

In fact, the best clinical diagnostic thinking is more like the forming of a mosaic than linear thinking: It requires the physician to constantly alter diagnoses as each new piece of data enters the picture. One conceives constantly of many possible diagnoses, narrows down, reexpands, and generates an ever - evolving flux of ideas; the more information gained from patients, the better. For example, a 30-year-old woman with shortness of breath and fever (maybe a virus: pneumonia, of course) for 3 months (tuberculosis, multiple pulmonary emboli, lupus, sarcoidosis) recently returned from India (malaria, hepatic abscess, weird tropical disease) where she was visiting her mother, who was dying of breast cancer (anxiety; metastases from breast, ovarian, or colonic cancer; maybe she visited a guru and got toxic herbal medications), and so on.

— Faith T. Fitzgerald

How is curiosity suppressed in medical students and physicians? It is. I have discovered, in nonclinical settings, that students who, on the wards, seem totally without curiosity or culture—dolts, in short—were, in their private worlds, avid poets, artists, musicians, and craftspersons of exquisite skill, vitally interested in a wide range of topics. They just did not think it wise to let anyone know because they had received a message from housestaff, faculty, or peers that interest in anything other than purely biological medicine was inappropriate for a medical student.

— Faith T. Fitzgerald

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By Rinat Voligamsi

"It is not enough that you understand in what ignorance man and beast live; you must also have and acquire the will to ignorance. You need to grasp that without this kind of ignorance life itself would be impossible, that it is a condition underwhich alone the living thing can preserve itself and prosper: a great, firm dome of ignorance must encompass you."

— F.N, The Will to Power.

A few steps back. — One, certainly very high level of culture has been attained when a man emerges from superstitious and religious concepts and fears and no longer believes in angels, for example, or in original sin, and has ceased to speak of the salvation of souls: if he is at this level of liberation he now has, with the greatest exertion of mind, to overcome metaphysics. Then, however, he needs to take a retrograde step: he has to grasp the historical justification that resides in such ideas, likewise the psychological; he has to recognize that they have been most responsible for the advancement of mankind and that without such a retrograde step he will deprive himself of the best that mankind has hitherto produced. -In regard to philosophical metaphysics, I see more and more who are making for the negative goal (that all positive metaphysics is an error), but still few who are taking a few steps back; for one may well want to look out over the topmost rung of the ladder, but one ought not to want to stand on it. The most enlightened get only as far as liberating themselves from metaphysics and looking back on it from above: whereas here too, as in the hippodrome, at the end of the track it is necessary to turn the corner.

— The Joyful Wisdom

فوضى
حتى الظل حاسبه إنسان

German: Ich habe mich verloren.
English: I have lost myself.

— Auguste Deter, the first patient to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease

*انطيه مجال يحس بروحه ديفرض شخصيته*

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