For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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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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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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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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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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