Paracelsus Quotes

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

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

  • 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.

    Paracelsus (1918). “The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus: Extracted and Translated from His Rare and Extensive Works and from Some Unpublished Manuscripts”
  • Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

    "Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time". Book by Frank Geerk, 1992.
  • 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.

    Paracelsus (1951). “Paracelsus: Selected Writings”
  • Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

    Paracelsus, George Rosen, Henry Ernest Sigerist, Clarice Lilian Temkin, Gregory Zilboorg (1941). “Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings”
  • 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.

    Paracelsus (1918). “The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus: Extracted and Translated from His Rare and Extensive Works and from Some Unpublished Manuscripts”
  • All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

  • Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

  • The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

    Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.134, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

    Die grosse Wundarznei
  • 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.

  • 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 (1967). “The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy”
  • The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

    Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Princeton University Press
  • 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, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Princeton University Press
  • 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, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.84, Princeton University Press
  • The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!

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

    Paracelsus (1951). “Selected writings”
  • 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.

  • The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

  • 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, George Rosen, Henry Ernest Sigerist, Clarice Lilian Temkin, Gregory Zilboorg (1941). “Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings”
  • 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, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.84, Princeton University Press
  • The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

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

  • 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.

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

    Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.125, Princeton University Press
  • He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.

    Paracelsus (1951). “Paracelsus: Selected Writings”
  • Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.

    "Paracelsus - Arzt unserer Zeit". Book by Frank Geerk, 1992.
  • 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.

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