Paracelsus Professions : Physician Born : December 17, 1493 Died : September 24, 1541 Browse All Authors Top 89 quotes by Paracelsus Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. Paracelsus dosage remedy poison 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 stars men world He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love. Paracelsus grapes fruit imagine The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. Paracelsus healing mind art The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience. Paracelsus doctors lessons wife All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it. Paracelsus health healing men There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition. Paracelsus intuition spiritual may 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 health life art The highest degree of a medicine is Love. Paracelsus highest degrees medicine Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him. Paracelsus physicians patient book It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians. Paracelsus burning cancer cutting The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life. Paracelsus disease causes law The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars. Paracelsus sunshine stars life Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within. Paracelsus remedy physicians fasting Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage Paracelsus medicine wine poison I am different. Let this not upset you Paracelsus upset different The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul. Paracelsus medicine animal men Man is ill because he is never still. Paracelsus chiropractic ill men 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. Paracelsus angel dream promise Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain. Paracelsus men believe art Similar Authors Abram Hoffer physician Buwei Yang Chao physician Broda Otto Barnes physician Brian Day physician Anna Komnene physician Axel Munthe physician All Authors
