What We Should Be After

Man Is A Microcosm, Or A Little World, Because He Is An Extract From All The Stars And Planets Of The Whole Firmament, From The Earth And The Elements; And So He Is Their Quintessence.

The Universities Do Not Teach All Things ... So A Doctor Must Seek Out Old Wives, Gypsies, Sorcerers, Wandering Tribes, Old Robbers, And Such Outlaws And Take Lessons From Them. A Doctor Must Be A Traveller . . . Knowledge Is Experience.

Some Children Are Born From Heaven And Others Are Born From Hell, Because Each Human Being Has His Inherent Tendencies, And These Tendencies Belong To His Spirit, And Indicate The State In Which He Existed Before He Was Born.

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.

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.