Quotes from Paracelsus

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.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

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

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

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

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?

Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within.

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.

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

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.

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

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.

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