Famous quotes by Paracelsus:

"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."

"Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many."

"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."

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

"If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed."

"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."

"The dose makes the poison."

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

"Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster."

"Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man."

"For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region."

"However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream."

"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."

"Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements."

"What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross."

"What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?"

"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."

"The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities."

"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."

"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."

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...at times I almost dream
I too have spent a life the sages' way,
And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance
I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act, a prayer
For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light let in by death,
That life was blotted out-not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain,
Dim memories, as now, when once more seems
The goal in sight again...