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?
PARACELSUSCould we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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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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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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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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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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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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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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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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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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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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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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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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