Quotes by Paracelsus

About Paracelsus:

Paracelsus is also known as a revolutionary for insisting upon using observations of nature, rather than looking to ancient texts, in open and radical defiance of medical practice of his day. He is also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in psychological conditions.
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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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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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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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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.

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy nature; the t...

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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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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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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?

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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

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

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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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The dose makes the poison.

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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.

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

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

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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

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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?

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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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Author Bio

  • NameParacelsus
  • DescriptionSwiss physician and alchemist
  • AliasesPhilippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim; Philip von Hohenheim; Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim; Theophrast von Hohenheim
  • BornNovember 10, 1493
  • DiedSeptember 24, 1541
  • CountrySwitzerland
  • ProfessionPhysician; Astrologer; Astronomer; Theologian