Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
PARACELSUSThe dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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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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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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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 is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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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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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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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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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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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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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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The dose makes the poison.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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