"What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones……" — 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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68 Quotes by Paracelsus
Paracelsus has 68 quotes on this site.
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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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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing…
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not…
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.
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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is…
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Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
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There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may…
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Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things…
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More Dross Quotes
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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting…
— Robert Benchley
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But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or…
— George Arnold
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold…
— Rumi
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If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during…
— Robert Koch
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The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a…
— William Walker Atkinson
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As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not…
— Maurice Sendak
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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in…
— Adrian Desmond
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When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be…
— Gautama Buddha
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When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during…
— Bhai Sahib Singh
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had…
— Jonathan Franzen
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I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but…
— Henry David Thoreau
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