Paracelsus Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

The main reason for healing is love.

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?

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.

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

The dose makes the poison.

Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

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

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

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

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

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

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.

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.

I am different. Let this not upset you

As you talk, so is your heart.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

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

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.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

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.