Paracelsus Quotes

Paracelsus
Swiss Scientist
Born: Nov 11, 1493
Died: Sep 24, 1541
Alchemy Art Dreams Life Man Nature
Related authors: Alfred Werner Fritz Zwicky Konrad von Gesner Louis Agassiz Niklaus Wirth Walter Rudolf Hess
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. Paracelsus
Poison Everything Remedy Without Makes Either Dosage Thing
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. Paracelsus
Man World Stars Extract Earth He Firmament Because Quintessence Microcosm Little Planets Whole Elements
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. Paracelsus
Life Music Better Sometimes Feeling Rule Guide Rules Though Must Composed Cases Had Instinct Nevertheless Like Know Often Doubtful Ear
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. Paracelsus
Ethics Medicine Philosophy Astronomy Rests Pillars Four Alchemy
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. Paracelsus
Life Art Science Before Medicine Guided Consist Must Compounding Only Also Does Deals Understood Pills Very May Which Processes Plaster
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. Paracelsus
Art Health Nature Healing Mind Physician Must Open Open Mind Therefore Start
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. Paracelsus
Work Man Earth Immensity Something He New Him Greater Were Than Heaven Create Desires Flows
The dose makes the poison. Paracelsus
Poison Makes Dose
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. Paracelsus
Eyes Trees See Perceive Only Remedy Stones Herbs
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. Paracelsus
Smith Process Founder Alchemy
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. Paracelsus
Nature Man Silver Bean Also Gold Fig Now
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. Paracelsus
Me Lie Power Aim Consider Virtue Silver Only Said Making May Gold Many Alchemy Medicines
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine. Paracelsus
Medicine He Chemist Office Alchemy
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. Paracelsus
Death Alone Nature Fight Healthy Whatever Once Entered Must Muster Attacks She Knows Parts Because Disease Common Which Mean Might Body Help
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. Paracelsus
Nature Man Everything Statement Must Distress About Take Make Revealed Tested His Account Want Then Basis
The interpretation of dreams is a great art. Paracelsus
Art Dreams Great Interpretation Great Art
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities. Paracelsus
Physician Patient Type Say Must Give Which Region Heed Lives
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. Paracelsus
Life Breath Out Through Mortal Another Causes His Source Lives Flow Flows
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. Paracelsus
Thrive Country Everything Earth One Country Wines Another Stones Different Bread Region Meat Specific Grows

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