Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
PARACELSUSMan is ill because he is never still.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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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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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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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.
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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.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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.
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