Paracelsus Quotes

• 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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  Tags in Grant, Granting

• 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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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Remedy

• 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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  Tags in Contempt, Judgement

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

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  Tags in Inspiration

• 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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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Different

• 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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  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Leave

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

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  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Accept, Accepting

• 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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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Statements

• 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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  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Desire

• 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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  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Medicine

• 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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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Aim

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

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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Medicines

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

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Man

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

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  Tags in 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.

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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Disease

• 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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  Topics in Dream, God

  Tags in Spirit, Promise

• The dose makes the poison.

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

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  Tags in Poison, Remedy

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Physician

• The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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  Topics in Art, Dream

Paracelsus (33)

Birth:	17th December, 1493
Death:	24th September, 1541
Nationality:	German, Swiss
Profession:	Botanist, Physician

About

Paracelsus was a Swiss German Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He founded the discipline of Toxicology. He is also known as a revolutionary for insisting upon using observations of nature, rather than looking to ancient texts, in open and radical defiance of medical practice of his day. He is also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in psychological illness.

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