The dose makes the poison.
PARACELSUSThe art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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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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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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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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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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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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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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It 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 beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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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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All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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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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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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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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