I am different. Let this not upset you.
PARACELSUSBut 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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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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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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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 dose makes the poison.
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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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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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 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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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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.
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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.
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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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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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