Paracelsus Quotes

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

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

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

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• What sense would it make or what would it benefit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• 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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• 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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• So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

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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.

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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.

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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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