black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

Paracelsus

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
PARACELSUS

Benefit Cure Discover Remedy
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
PARACELSUS

Bed Health Security Yourself
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
PARACELSUS

Hide Result Reveal
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

Mathematics Point Science Wisdom
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
PARACELSUS

Appearance Dreams God Greatness Natural Predicament Reveal Send
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
PARACELSUS

Brother Call Fools Ourselves
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
PARACELSUS

Man Perception Power See Spiritual
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
PARACELSUS

Body Ingredient Name Science
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
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.
PARACELSUS

Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
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.
PARACELSUS

Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life
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
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
PARACELSUS

Live Reason Spirit
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
PARACELSUS

Himself Love Understand Worth
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
PARACELSUS

Gold Man Nature

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Paracelsus Quotes