Man is ill because he is never still.
PARACELSUSThat which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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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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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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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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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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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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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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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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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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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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The dose makes the poison.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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