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.
PARACELSUSIf 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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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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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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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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For 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.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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.
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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. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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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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