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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.

Quote by Paracelsus about nature, common sense, fight, help, body, death

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

Quote by Paracelsus about opinion, things

The dose makes the poison.

Quote by Paracelsus about badness

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.

Quote by Paracelsus about dream, angels, god, nothing

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Quote by Paracelsus about dream, art, magic

The patient who pins his hope on the medicament is not a Christian, but he who puts his hope in God is a Christian.

Quote by Paracelsus about religion, christianity, hope, god

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

Quote by Paracelsus about science

Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

Quote by Paracelsus about god, spirit, good, good luck

Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art

Quote by Paracelsus about imagination, art, magic, work

Therefore we should keep an eye on the outward characteristics which nature gives a man by shaping him in a certain way.

Quote by Paracelsus about nature, man

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

Quote by Paracelsus about opinion, medicine

This means that each country, in addition to the general properties common to the whole world, also has its own specific properties.

Quote by Paracelsus about country, common sense, world

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

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

Quote by Paracelsus about creation, art

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.

Quote by Paracelsus about real estate, things, time

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.

Quote by Paracelsus about science, origin, common sense, sense

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy, the eyes see only the dross.

Quote by Paracelsus about eyes

They say eyes clear with age.

Quote by Philip Larkin about philosophy, eyes, age, olderness

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

Quote by Mickey Rourke about opinion, ability, bad

I was very immature when I was young and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

Quote by Mickey Rourke about youth, nothing