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But 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?

Paracelsus

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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Herself Light Nature Understand Visible
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Poison Remedy Right
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
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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Born Creation Element Establishment Heaven Himself Man Thinking
As you talk, so is your heart.
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Character Heart One Liner Talk
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life
The main reason for healing is love.
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Healing Love Reason
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Body Human Life Material Stars Sunshine
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Gold Man Nature
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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Man Nature Reveal Statement
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
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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Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing

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