From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
PARACELSUSIt 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.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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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.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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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.
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