Paracelsus Quotes

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• Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
• Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage
• The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
• All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
• Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
• Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)
• 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…
• Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.
• 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…
• Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
• 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…
• Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
• And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as…
• All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
• All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
• Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
• 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…
• Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
• The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy
• Man is ill because he is never still.

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