Paracelsus - Nature Quotes

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

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

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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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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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