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.
PARACELSUSMan is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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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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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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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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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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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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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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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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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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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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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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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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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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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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