“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.”

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.

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

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

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.

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.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Let us not doubt that God has a father’s pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind.

Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.