Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
PARACELSUSLet no one who can be his own belong to another.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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