Quotes About Paracelsus

#1. Mickey had turned into Daisy, and Goofy had turned into Einstein - we were talking about a transmutation that would even have had Paracelsus foaming at the mouth.

Novala Takemoto

#2. We watch Paracelsus in Basle as though seeing a man run headlong toward a precipice. Like an indestructible lunatic, he will do so again and again throughout his life.

Philip Ball

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

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#4. However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

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#5. All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

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#6. 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.

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#7. It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.

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#8. Death is the midwife of very great things ... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

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#11. The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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#12. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

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#13. It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.

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#14. Let no one who can be his own belong to another.

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#15. A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

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#16. A so-called antimony war had been waged between French [Galenist] physicians and [alchemical, Paracelsian] iatrochemists since the beginning of the seventeenth century. What it lacked in bloodletting, this war made up for in bile.

Philip Ball

#17. 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?

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#18. Everything is a poison, nothing is a poison.
It is the dose that makes the poison

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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

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

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#23. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

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#24. 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.

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#25. The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

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#26. 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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#27. The main reason for healing is love.

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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#30. The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

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#31. Anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.

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#32. This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

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#33. 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?

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#34. The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

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#35. Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

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#36. 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.

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#37. Fasting is the greatest remedy
the physician within.

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#38. Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature ... create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.

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#39. Be not another, if you can be yourself.

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#40. Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

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

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#42. And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.

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#43. The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!

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#44. 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.

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#45. 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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#46. In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

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#47. 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.

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#48. 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.

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#49. All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

Paracelsus 1493-1541

#50. But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

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#51. Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.

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#52. The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

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#53. Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

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#54. All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

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#55. Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

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#56. The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.

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#57. As you talk, so is your heart.

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#58. The dose makes the poison...

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#59. The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

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#60. Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

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#61. Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.

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#62. 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.

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#63. That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

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#64. Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

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#65. Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

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#66. For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

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#67. For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words.
- Opus paramirum, I:ix

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#68. Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Robert Browning

#69. Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

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

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#71. I am different. Let this not upset you

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#72. Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

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#73. Man is ill because he is never still.

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#74. 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.

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#75. 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.

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#76. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him ... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

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

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#78. 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.

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#79. Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.

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#80. 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.

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#81. Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

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#82. 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.

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#83. The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

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#84. What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

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#85. This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

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#86. Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

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

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

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#89. Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

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