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.
PARACELSUSPoison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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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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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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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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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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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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.
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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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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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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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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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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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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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