Be not another, if you can be yourself.

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Yourself You Be yourself Another

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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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Either Everything Makes Poison

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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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Better Cases Composed Doubtful

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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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Because Earth Elements Extract

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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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Artistic Artists Been Desired

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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Art Dreams Great GreatArt

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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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Another Breath Causes Flow

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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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Art Healing Mind Must

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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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Create Desires Earth Flows

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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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Also Art Before Consist

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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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Alchemy Although Considered Contempt

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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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Body Created Cures Greater

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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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Come Dreams Elements Fantasy

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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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Accepted Come Dreams Great

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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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Bread Daily DailyBread Grants

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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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Another Bread Country Different

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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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Alone Anyone Awakening Back

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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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About Account Basis Distress

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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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Aim Alchemy Consider Gold

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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

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Alchemy Astronomy Ethics Four

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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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Also Bean Fig Gold

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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

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Because Deemed Good Helps

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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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Alone Attacks Because Body

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The dose makes the poison.

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Dose Makes Poison

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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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Angels Appear Directly Dreams

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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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Give Heed Lives Must

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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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Alchemy Chemist He Medicine

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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

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Alchemy Founder Process Smith

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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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Arts Create Energy Flow

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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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Asleep Away Because Fooling

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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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Alleviate Could Cure Discovered

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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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Eyes Herbs Only Perceive

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"32 Paracelsus Quotes & Sayings

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

Paracelsus

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Paracelsus

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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.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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?

Paracelsus

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Paracelsus

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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.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Paracelsus

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Paracelsus

Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

The dose makes the poison.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

Paracelsus

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Paracelsus

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Paracelsus

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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?

Paracelsus

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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