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.
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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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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The dose makes the poison.
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