Paracelsus Quotes

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

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

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Man is ill because he is never still.

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

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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.

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.

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.

There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.

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

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.

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

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?

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.

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

The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.

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.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

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

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.

Be not another, if you can be yourself.