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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.

Paracelsus

Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
PARACELSUS

Blood System Woman
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
PARACELSUS

Amount Dosage Poison Quality
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
PARACELSUS

Build Error Heaven Thrive
The main reason for healing is love.
PARACELSUS

Healing Love Reason
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.
PARACELSUS

Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
PARACELSUS

Art Awakening Lying Man
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.
PARACELSUS

Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
PARACELSUS

Brisk Time Wind
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
PARACELSUS

Live Patient Type Weird
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
PARACELSUS

Be Yourself Himself
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
PARACELSUS

Degree Love Medicine One Liner
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
PARACELSUS

Man Perception Power See Spiritual
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.
PARACELSUS

Creation Earth Establishment Heaven Man Work
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.
PARACELSUS

Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
PARACELSUS

Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
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.
PARACELSUS

Herself Light Nature Understand Visible

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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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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