The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
PARACELSUSAll that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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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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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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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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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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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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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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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 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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Man is ill because he is never still.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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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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