The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
PARACELSUSDreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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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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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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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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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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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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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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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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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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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