What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
PARACELSUSAs you talk, so is your heart.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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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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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
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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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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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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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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.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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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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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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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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