Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
PARACELSUSThe main reason for healing is love.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.
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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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Man is ill because he is never still.
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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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The dose makes the poison.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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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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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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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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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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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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.
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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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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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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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And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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