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.
PARACELSUSAnyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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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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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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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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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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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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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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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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The dose makes the poison.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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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 art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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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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