“Every 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.”

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.

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.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

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.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

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?

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.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.

If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.

I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to.

You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.

You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.