Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
PARACELSUSWhether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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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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.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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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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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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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.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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