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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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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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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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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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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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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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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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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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.
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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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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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