black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
PARACELSUS

Challenge Finding God Healing Health Man Nature Need 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
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
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.
PARACELSUS

Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
PARACELSUS

Cure Fast Greatness
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
PARACELSUS

Creation Earth Establishment Heaven Man Work
The dose makes the poison.
PARACELSUS

Dosage One Liner Poison
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 right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Poison Remedy Right
The main reason for healing is love.
PARACELSUS

Healing Love Reason
As you talk, so is your heart.
PARACELSUS

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

Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
PARACELSUS

Born Creation Element Establishment Heaven Himself Man Thinking
Man is ill because he is never still.
PARACELSUS

Calm Man Sick

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Paracelsus Quotes