If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
PARACELSUSThe dose makes the poison.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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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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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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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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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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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Man is ill because he is never still.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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