The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUSConsider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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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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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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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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It 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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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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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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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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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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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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