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?
PARACELSUSBut is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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The dose makes the poison.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
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It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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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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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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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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