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.
PARACELSUSThe art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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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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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.
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All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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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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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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