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Paracelsus , born Theophrastus von Hohenheim , was a Swiss physician, alchemist, and astrologer of the German Renaissance.He was a pioneer in several aspects of the "medical revolution" of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom. He is credited as the "father of toxicology". Paracelsus also had a substantial impact as a prophet or diviner, his "Prognostications" being studied by Rosicrucians in the 1600s. Paracelsianism is the early modern medical movement inspired by the study of his works.



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✵ 10. November 1493 – 24. September 1541
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Famous Paracelsus Quotes

Paracelsus quote: “What else is the help of medicine than love?”

“What else is the help of medicine than love?”

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

“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.”

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

Paracelsus Quotes about God

“Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.”

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

“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.”

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

“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.”

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

Paracelsus Quotes about heart

“What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.”

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

“As you talk, so is your heart.”

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

Paracelsus Quotes

“Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.”

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

“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.”

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Paracelsus - Collected Writings Vol. I (1926) edited by Bernhard Aschner, p. 110

“Be not another, if you can be yourself.”

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“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.”

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

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

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

“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?”

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Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

“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.”

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Hermetic and Alchemical Writings http://books.google.com/books?id=_Q0MAAAAIAAJ& (1894), edited by Arthur Edward Waite; Coelum Philosophorum or Book of Vexations, originally 1543

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