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32 Paracelsus Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 1493. Died: 24 September 1541 |
Physician
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Theologian
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Philosopher
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
Paracelsus
Yourself
You
Be yourself
Another
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Paracelsus
Either
Everything
Makes
Poison
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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.
Paracelsus
Better
Cases
Composed
Doubtful
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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.
Paracelsus
Because
Earth
Elements
Extract
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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.
Paracelsus
Artistic
Artists
Been
Desired
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
Paracelsus
Art
Dreams
Great
GreatArt
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Another
Breath
Causes
Flow
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Paracelsus
Art
Healing
Mind
Must
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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.
Paracelsus
Create
Desires
Earth
Flows
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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.
Paracelsus
Also
Art
Before
Consist
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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.
Paracelsus
Alchemy
Although
Considered
Contempt
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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?
Paracelsus
Body
Created
Cures
Greater
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Paracelsus
Come
Dreams
Elements
Fantasy
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Accepted
Come
Dreams
Great
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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.
Paracelsus
Bread
Daily
DailyBread
Grants
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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.
Paracelsus
Another
Bread
Country
Different
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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.
Paracelsus
Alone
Anyone
Awakening
Back
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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.
Paracelsus
About
Account
Basis
Distress
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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.
Paracelsus
Aim
Alchemy
Consider
Gold
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Paracelsus
Alchemy
Astronomy
Ethics
Four
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus
Also
Bean
Fig
Gold
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
Paracelsus
Because
Deemed
Good
Helps
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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.
Paracelsus
Alone
Attacks
Because
Body
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The dose makes the poison.
Paracelsus
Dose
Makes
Poison
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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.
Paracelsus
Angels
Appear
Directly
Dreams
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Give
Heed
Lives
Must
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
Paracelsus
Alchemy
Chemist
He
Medicine
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus
Alchemy
Founder
Process
Smith
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Paracelsus
Arts
Create
Energy
Flow
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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.
Paracelsus
Asleep
Away
Because
Fooling
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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?
Paracelsus
Alleviate
Could
Cure
Discovered
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
Paracelsus
Eyes
Herbs
Only
Perceive
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Paracelsus Quotes & Sayings