The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUSNature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
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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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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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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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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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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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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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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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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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