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.
PARACELSUSWe 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.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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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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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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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.
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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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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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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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