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.
PARACELSUSThe book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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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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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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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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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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The dose makes the poison.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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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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Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Although 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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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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