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.
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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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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The dose makes the poison.
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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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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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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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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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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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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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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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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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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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.
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