The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
PARACELSUSWhat we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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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 art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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.
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Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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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.
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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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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