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.
PARACELSUSThe physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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The main reason for healing is love.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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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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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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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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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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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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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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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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