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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.

Paracelsus

Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
PARACELSUS

Himself Man
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
PARACELSUS

Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
PARACELSUS

Leave Nature Reading Walk
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
PARACELSUS

Challenge Finding God Healing Health Man Nature Need Science
What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
PARACELSUS

Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
PARACELSUS

Body Human Life Material Stars Sunshine
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
PARACELSUS

Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
Man is ill because he is never still.
PARACELSUS

Calm Man Sick
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
PARACELSUS

Beginning Power Wisdom
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
PARACELSUS

Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
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.
PARACELSUS

Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
PARACELSUS

Dreams Element Fantasy Meaning
All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
PARACELSUS

Mathematics Point Science Wisdom
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.
PARACELSUS

Build Error Heaven Thrive
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
PARACELSUS

Gold Man Nature
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.
PARACELSUS

Country Different Earth Growth Thrive

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