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.
PARACELSUSOnce a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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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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Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.
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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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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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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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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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