It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
PARACELSUSAll 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.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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 right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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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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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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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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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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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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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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