Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new. . . but who can understand … - Paracelsus

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When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

Paracelsus

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?

Design, Measure, Time, Understand, Wind

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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

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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.

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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.

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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.

Causes, Demise, Flow, Life, Lives

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