Paracelsus Quotes

Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)

Paracelsus (11 November or 17 December 1493 - 24 September 1541) was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. Born Phillip von Hohenheim, he later took up the name Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, and still later used the name Paracelsus.

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Native Name: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim

Alternative Names: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim • Philip von Hohenheim • Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim • Theophrast von Hohenheim

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What else is the help of medicine than love?

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

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.

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

He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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