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.
PARACELSUSWhether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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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The dose makes the poison.
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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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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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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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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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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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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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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