Paracelsus
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, who published under the name Paracelsus ("greater than Celsus," a reference to the first-century Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus) was a Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and occultist. He pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine, and was among the first to credibly suggest that illness was the result of the body being attacked by outside agents, rather than an imbalance of the four Hippocratic humours. However, he is today remembered more for his contributions to alchemy and his magical theories, which stood in contrast to those of Cornelius Agrippa and Nicolas Flamel.
“من لا يعرف شيئا لا يحب أحداً.. ومن لا يستطيع أن يفعل شيئاً لا يفهم أحداً, ومن لا يفهم شيئاً لا قيمة له. ولكن من يفهم فانه أيضاً يحب ويلاحظ ويرى.و كلما ازدادت المعرفة بشيء,عظم الحب.. و أن أي إنسان يتصور أن جميع الثمار تنضج في الوقت نفسه الخاص بنضج الفراولة لا يعرف شيئاً عن العنب.”
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“He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands alsoloves, notices, sees … The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.… Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”
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“All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.”
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“Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.”
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“Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.”
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“...anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.”
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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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“Be not another, if you can be yourself. ”
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