The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
PARACELSUSLife 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.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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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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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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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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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