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Paracelsus

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Quotes by Paracelsus

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This process is alchemy its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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True medicine only arises from the creative knowledge of the last and deepest powers of the whole universe; only he who grasps the innermost nature of man can cure him in earnest.
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True medicine only arises from the creative knowledge of the last and deeper powers of the whole universe; only he who grasps the innermost nature of man can cure him in earnest.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... 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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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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One who lives within reason lives without the spirit.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees... The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love... Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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All things are poison, and nothing is without poison.
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