All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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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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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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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 beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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