Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
PARACELSUSAll 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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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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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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The dose makes the poison.
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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 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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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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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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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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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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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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