The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
PARACELSUSIt is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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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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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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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.
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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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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