Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
PARACELSUSConsider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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The dose makes the poison.
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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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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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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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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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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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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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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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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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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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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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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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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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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