Paracelsus Quotes
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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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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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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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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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What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.
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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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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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God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.
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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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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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We should become angels and not devils, that’s why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.
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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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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
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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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We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body.Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.
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Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?
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Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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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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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.