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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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

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

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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

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

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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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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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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.

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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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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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Be not another, if you can be yourself.

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There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens.

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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

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Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

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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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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