27 quotes
All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.
The physician's duty is to heal the sick, not enrich the apothecaries.
Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Luther is abundantly learned, therefore you hate him and me, but we are at least a match for you.
God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
What else is the help of medicine than love?
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body.Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
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.
Paracelsus - Collected Writings Vol. I (1926)
What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
the true use of chemistry is not to make gold but to prepare medicines.
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
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.
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
For the alchemist is the baker in baking the bread, the vintner in making the wine, the weaver in weaving cloth. Thus, whatever arises out of nature for human use is brought to that condition ordained by nature by an alchemist.
the chapter Alchimia in Paragranum (1530)