Paracelsus Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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 must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.”
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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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“There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.”
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“The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.”
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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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“Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.”
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“Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.”
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“Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.”
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“The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books”
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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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“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 right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy”
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“In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.”
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“Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.”
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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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“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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“Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.”
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“Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”
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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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“That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.”
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“All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.”
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“Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage”
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“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.”
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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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“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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“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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