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.
PARACELSUSThe physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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.
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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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?
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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