From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
PARACELSUSA little bit of beer is divine medicine.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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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.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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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.
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Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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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.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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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.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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The dose makes the poison.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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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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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.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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.
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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.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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