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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.

Paracelsus

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Amount Cure Poison Portion Remedy
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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Born Children Existence Heaven Hell Human State
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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Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
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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Alone Awakening Dreams Himself Room Talk
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
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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Art Doctor Healing Mindset Nature
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dosage Drugs
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Body Human Life Material Stars Sunshine
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Degree Love Medicine One Liner
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
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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Alchemy Fall Influence Judgement Past
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
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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Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
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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Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Blood System Woman
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Alcohol Divine Medicine
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Art Health Medicine Root
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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Mathematics Point Science Wisdom
As you talk, so is your heart.
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Character Heart One Liner Talk
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Beginning Power Wisdom

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.

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