05 November 2023

Week 2023-44: Paracelsus [Theophrastus von Hohenheim] - Collected Quotes

"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." (Paracelsus)

"Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true." (Paracelsus)

"He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly." (Paracelsus)

"In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God." (Paracelsus)

"It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution." (Paracelsus)

"Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly." (Paracelsus)

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

"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." (Paracelsus)

"The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves." (Paracelsus)

"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)

"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?" (Paracelsus)

"We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself." (Paracelsus)

"When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him [...] For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth." (Paracelsus)

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