We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
PARACELSUSFor 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.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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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 human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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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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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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