Quotes from Paracelsus

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

The main reason for healing is love.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

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.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

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.

Man is ill because he is never still.