Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
PARACELSUSLet no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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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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Man is ill because he is never still.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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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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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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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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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?
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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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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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