Paracelsus on medicine
“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.”
More Paracelsus quotes
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
ParacelsusParacelsus Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
ParacelsusParacelsus The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
ParacelsusParacelsus The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
ParacelsusParacelsus Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
ParacelsusParacelsus A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
ParacelsusParacelsus Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
ParacelsusParacelsus 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.
ParacelsusParacelsus 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.
ParacelsusParacelsus The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
ParacelsusParacelsus Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
ParacelsusParacelsus Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
ParacelsusParacelsus 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.
ParacelsusParacelsus The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
ParacelsusParacelsus 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?
ParacelsusParacelsus 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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