black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

Paracelsus

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.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Fall Influence Judgement Past
The dose makes the poison.
PARACELSUS

Dosage One Liner Poison
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
PARACELSUS

Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
PARACELSUS

Gold Man Nature
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
PARACELSUS

Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
PARACELSUS

Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
PARACELSUS

Body Creation Greatness Sick Soul
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.
PARACELSUS

Man Nature Reveal Statement
Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
PARACELSUS

Arts Beginning Determination Imagination Man Uncertain Willing
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity
Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
PARACELSUS

Appearance God Goodness Himself
And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
PARACELSUS

Best Discover Live Reveal True
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
PARACELSUS

Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
PARACELSUS

Build Error Heaven Thrive
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
PARACELSUS

Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Paracelsus Quotes