When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
PARACELSUSWhether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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.
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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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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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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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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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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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.
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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