From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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 soul, which is more than the body, greater?
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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.
Man is ill because he is never still.
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.