Paracelsus Quotes
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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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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The dose makes the poison.
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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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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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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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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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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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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.
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God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
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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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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.