That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
PARACELSUSHowever, 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.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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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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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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The dose makes the poison.
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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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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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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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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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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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