The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
PARACELSUSNature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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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All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
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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.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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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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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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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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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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