Paracelsus Quotes

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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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Man is a seed and the world is his apple; and just as the seed fares in the apple, so does man fare in the world, which surrounds him.

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

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What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.

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Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

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Alchemy is the art that separates what is useful from what is not by transforming it into its ultimate matter and essence.

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

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Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.

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

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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.

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Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least good whilst it is thus concealed. The concealment must be removed so that the good may be able freely to appear in its own brightness. For example, the mountain, the sand, the earth, or the stone in which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals.

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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.

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In matters eternal it is Belief that makes all works visible, in matters corporeal it is the light of Nature that reveals things invisible.

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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.

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Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?

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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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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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God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.

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If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.

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Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.

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Every experiment is like a weapon which must be used in its particular way—a spear to thrust, a club to strike. Experimenting requires a man who knows when to thrust and when to strike, each according to need and fashion.

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He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.

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For, as the element of water lies in the middle of the globe, so, the branches run out from the root in its circuit on all sides towards the plains and towards the light. From this root very many branches are born. One branch is the Rhine, another the Danube, another the Nile, etc.

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

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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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God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.

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We should become angels and not devils, that's why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.

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