Paracelsus 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.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Healing, Mind

  Seven Defenses Ch. 4

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• All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

  Paracelsus

  Healing, Health, Men

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

  Paracelsus

  Poison, Remedy, Dosage

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• The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

  Paracelsus

  Medicine, Degrees, Highest

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• The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

  Paracelsus

  Doctors, Wife, Lessons

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• The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

  Paracelsus

  Life, Stars, Sunshine

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• He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

  Paracelsus

  Fruit, Imagine, Grapes

  "Paracelsus: Selected Writings".

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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.

  Paracelsus

  Stars, Men, World

  Paracelsus (1967). “The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy”

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• I am different. Let this not upset you

  Paracelsus

  Upset, Different

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

  Paracelsus

  Law, Disease, Causes

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• Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

  Paracelsus

  Fasting, Physicians, Remedy

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• Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

  Paracelsus

  Wine, Medicine, Poison

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• 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, Health

  Die grosse Wundarznei

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• There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.

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  Spiritual, Intuition, May

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• It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.

  Paracelsus

  Cancer, Cutting, Burning

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• Man is ill because he is never still.

  Paracelsus

  Men, Chiropractic, Ill

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• The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.

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  Animal, Men, Medicine

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• In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

  Paracelsus

  Heaven, Special, Unbroken

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• Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.

  Paracelsus

  Art, New Beginnings, Men

  Paracelsus (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.45, Princeton University Press

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• Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

  Paracelsus

  Spiritual, Men, Perception

  Paracelsus (1918). “The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus: Extracted and Translated from His Rare and Extensive Works and from Some Unpublished Manuscripts”

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• A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

  Paracelsus

  Beer, Medicine, Littles

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• Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

  Paracelsus

  Magic, Secret, Reason

  Paracelsus (1951). “Paracelsus: Selected Writings”

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• Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.

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  Art, Believe, Men

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• Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun,
  for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls.
  Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice,
  in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen
  and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

  Paracelsus

  Fall, Ocean, Ignorance

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• All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Lying, Men

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