Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
PARACELSUSAll 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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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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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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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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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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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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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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