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.
PARACELSUSEverything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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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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The dose makes the poison.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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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 has its roots in the heart.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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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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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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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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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Nature 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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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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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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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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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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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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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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