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.
PARACELSUSNature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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The dose makes the poison.
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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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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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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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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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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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