The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
PARACELSUSCould 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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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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The dose makes the poison.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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