Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
PARACELSUSMedicine 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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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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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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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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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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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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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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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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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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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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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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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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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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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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