The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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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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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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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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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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