The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
PARACELSUSWhat we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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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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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?
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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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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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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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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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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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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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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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.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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