“The main reason for healing is love.”

But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.

Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.