Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
PARACELSUSThis is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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The dose makes the poison.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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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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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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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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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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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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