Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
PARACELSUSLet no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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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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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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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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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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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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Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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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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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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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.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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A 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.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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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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