Paracelsus Quotes - Page 3

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.

The dose makes the poison.

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?

The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.

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.

As you talk, so is your heart.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

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

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

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

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

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.

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.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

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

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?

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

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.

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

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

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.

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.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

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

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?