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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Paracelsus

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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Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
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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Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
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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Amount Dosage Poison Quality
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Challenge Finding God Healing Health Man Nature Need Science
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Brother Call Fools Ourselves
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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Dreams Element Fantasy Meaning
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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Burn Punishment Removal
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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Body Creation Greatness Sick Soul
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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Earth Element Man Planet Stars World
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Earth Impossible Mindset Right
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Art Health Medicine Root
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Gold Man Nature

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