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.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

I am different. Let this not upset you

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

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

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.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy