Quotes from Paracelsus

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.

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?

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.

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.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

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

Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

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

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

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.

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

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

The dose makes the poison.

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

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

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.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

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