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.
PARACELSUSA 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.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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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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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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We 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.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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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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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.
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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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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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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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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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