Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
PARACELSUSEvery physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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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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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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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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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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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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