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.
PARACELSUSFrom time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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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 art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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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.
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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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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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