Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
PARACELSUSAll drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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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.
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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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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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All 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.
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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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It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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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