Paracelsus Quotes
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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 process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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The dose makes the poison.
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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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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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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 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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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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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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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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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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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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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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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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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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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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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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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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What else is the help of medicine than love?
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Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.
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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.