Paracelsus
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Paracelsus (November 11 or December 17, 1493 - September 24, 1541) Alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. Born Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.
- 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.
- 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.
- The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
- The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
- Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. 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.
- 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.
- God did not create the planets and stars with the intention that they should dominate man, but that they, like other creatures, should obey and serve him.
- So I have been a wanderer all my life, alone and a stranger feeling alien.
bs:Teophrast Paracelsus
