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.
PARACELSUSEvery body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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 beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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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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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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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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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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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.
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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.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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