Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
PARACELSUSMedicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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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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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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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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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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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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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.
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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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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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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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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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The dose makes the poison.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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