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.
PARACELSUSAlthough Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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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 ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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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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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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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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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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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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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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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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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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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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