Paracelsus Quotes
Top 62 wise famous quotes and sayings by Paracelsus
Paracelsus Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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?
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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.
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.
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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.
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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 arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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?
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens.
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
He who knows nothing, loves nothing.
He who can do nothing understands nothing.
He who understands nothing is worthless.
He who can do nothing understands nothing.
He who understands nothing is worthless.
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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.