Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
PARACELSUSMen who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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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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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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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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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Once 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.
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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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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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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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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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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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