Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

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

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 art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

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.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

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

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

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.

Take responsibility for the city

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn’t get, but that’s not the case anymore.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.