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.
PARACELSUSWhen 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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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.
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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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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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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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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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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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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 ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
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