“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.”

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.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

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.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.