Paracelsus Quotes

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Paracelsus

Profession : Scientist

Birth : November 11, 1493

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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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.

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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.

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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

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

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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.

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

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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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.

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

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

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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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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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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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