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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

The dose makes the poison.
PARACELSUS

Dosage One Liner Poison
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Earth Element Man Planet Stars World
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
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
PARACELSUS

Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
PARACELSUS

Benefit Dosage Drugs
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
PARACELSUS

Alone Awakening Dreams Himself Room Talk
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
PARACELSUS

Degree Love Medicine One Liner
Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
PARACELSUS

Appearance God Goodness Himself
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
PARACELSUS

Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
PARACELSUS

Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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Man Perception Power See Spiritual
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
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
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
The main reason for healing is love.
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Healing Love Reason
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Magic Process

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