Paracelsus Quotes

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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.

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

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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.

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There can be no surgeon who is not also a physician…Where the physician is not also a surgeon he is an idol that is nothing but a painted monkey.

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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.

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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.

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In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.

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He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.

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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.

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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i. e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

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

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We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body. Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.

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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

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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?

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

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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature can be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature will become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her in her inner light.

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He who knows nothing, loves nothing.
He who can do nothing understands nothing.
He who understands nothing is worthless.

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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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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.

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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.

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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.

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Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

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The great virtues that lie hidden in nature would never have been revealed if alchemy had not uncovered them and made them visible. Take a tree, for example; a man sees it in the winter, but he does not know what it is, he does not know what it conceals within itself, until summer comes and discloses the buds, the flowers, the fruit [...] Similarly the virtues in things remain concealed to man, unless the alchemist disclose them, as the summer reveals the nature of the tree.

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