He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
PARACELSUSIt 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 book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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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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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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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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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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But 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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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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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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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