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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Paracelsus

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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Hide Manifestation Reveal Secret
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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Man Perception Power See Spiritual
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
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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Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dosage Drugs
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Beginning Power Wisdom
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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Himself Love Understand Worth
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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Live Patient Type Weird
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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Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original
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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Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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Himself Philosophy Power Stars
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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Art Awakening Lying Man

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