Paracelsus Quotes

“All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.”

“We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body. Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.”

“The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.”

“Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.”

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

“In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.”

“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.”

“God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.”

“We should become angels and not devils, that’s why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.”

“God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.”

“As you talk, so is your heart.”

“He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.”

“Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.”

“All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.”

“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.”

“If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.”

“He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.”

“Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?”

“Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least good whilst it is thus concealed. The concealment must be removed so that the good may be able freely to appear in its own brightness. For example, the mountain, the sand, the earth, or the stone in which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals.”