Frases de Axel Munthe
Axel Munthe
Data de nascimento: 31. Outubro 1857
Data de falecimento: 11. Fevereiro 1949
Outros nomes: Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe
Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe foi um médico, psiquiatra e escritor sueco. Sua obra mais famosa é The Story of San Michele publicada em 1929. Munthe também foi conhecido por sua natureza filantrópica e por advogar os direitos animais.
Estudou Medicina na Universidade de Uppsala, Montpellier e Paris, doutorando-se no ano de 1880. Embora sua tese tratasse da ginecologia e obstetrícia, Munthe fora fortemente impressionado pelo trabalho pioneiro sobre neurologia do professor Jean-Martin Charcot, chegando a assistir às suas aulas no Hospital Salpêtrière.
Praticou intensamente a medicina em Paris e Roma e, posteriormente, tornou-se médico da Família Real Sueca.
Citações Axel Munthe
„Tudo o que nos é útil pode ser obtido por pouco dinheiro. Só o supérfluo é caro.“
— Axel Munthe
All that useful to us can be bought for littlereally money, it is only the superfluous that is put up for sale at a high price.
Story of San Michelle
„A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.“
— Axel Munthe, livro The Story of San Michele
The Story of San Michele (1929), Preface, 1928
„In former days all animals could speak and so could the flowers, the trees and the stones and all lifeless things who were all created by the same God who had created man. Therefore man should be kind to all animals, and treat all lifeless things as if they could still hear and understand. On the day of the Last Judgement the animals would be called in first by God to give evidence against the dead man. Only after the animals had had their say would his fellow creatures be called in as witnesses.“
— Axel Munthe, livro The Story of San Michele
The Story of San Michele (1929), Ch. VII
