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.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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.

Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

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

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

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

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?

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?

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.

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

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

The dose makes the poison.

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

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

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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.

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.

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

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.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

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.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

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.

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

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 main reason for healing is love.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I hate wasting people's time.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.