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.
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 little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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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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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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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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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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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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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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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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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.
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