The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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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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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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The dose makes the poison.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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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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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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