Paracelsus Quotes

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

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

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.

Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?

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

Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.

All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; but the dose makes it clear that a thing is not a poison.

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

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

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

What else is the help of medicine than love?

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.

He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.

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.