That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
PARACELSUSIn every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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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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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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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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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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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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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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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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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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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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