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Paracelsus

Read through the most famous quotes from Paracelsus




Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.


— Paracelsus


#cases #composed #doubtful #ear #feeling

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


— Paracelsus


#create #energy #firmament #flow #heaven

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


— Paracelsus


#dreams #elements #fantasy #inspiration #may

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.


— Paracelsus


#daily #daily bread #grants #labour #must

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.


— Paracelsus


#art #before #compounding #consist #deals

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


— Paracelsus


#either #everything #makes #poison #remedy

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.


— Paracelsus


#earth #elements #extract #firmament #little

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.


— Paracelsus


#alchemy #consider #gold #lie #making

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


— Paracelsus


#comes #healing #mind #must #nature

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


— Paracelsus


#come #dreams #great #heeded #many






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Many books mentioning Paracelsus also cite him as the origin of the word "bombastic" to describe his often arrogant speaking style which the following passage illustrates:

I am Theophrastus and greater than those to whom you liken me; I am Theophrastus and in addition I am monarcha medicorum and I can prove to you what you cannot prove. In 1536 his Die grosse Wundartznei (The Great Surgery Book) was publiParacelsusd and enabled him to regain fame. Pabst was later sharply criticised for having produced this film in Nazi Germany subject – like all German films at the time – to the supervision of Goebbels and the considerations of Nazi propaganda.

Paracelsus (born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim 11 November or 17 December 1493 – 24 September 1541) was a German-Swiss Renaissance physician botanist alchemist astrologer and general occultist. "Paracelsus" meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus" refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the 1st century known for his tract on medicine.

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