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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.

Paracelsus

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
PARACELSUS

Brisk Time Wind
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
PARACELSUS

Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
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.
PARACELSUS

Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
The main reason for healing is love.
PARACELSUS

Healing Love Reason
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.
PARACELSUS

Herself Light Nature Understand Visible
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
PARACELSUS

Brother Call Fools Ourselves
As you talk, so is your heart.
PARACELSUS

Character Heart One Liner Talk
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
PARACELSUS

Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
PARACELSUS

Himself Philosophy Power Stars
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
PARACELSUS

Country Different Earth Growth Thrive
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
PARACELSUS

Art Health Medicine Root
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
PARACELSUS

Benefit Dosage Drugs
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
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.
PARACELSUS

Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick

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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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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