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Paracelsus
21 quotes
“Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least good whilst it is thus concealed. The concealment must be removed so that the good may be able freely to appear in its own brightness. For example, the mountain, the sand, the earth, or the stone in which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hermetic and Alchemical Writings (1894), edited by Arthur Edward Waite; Coelum Philosophorum or Book of Vexations, originally 1543
“All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paracelsus - Collected Writings Vol. I (1926) edited by Bernhard Aschner, p. 110
“As you talk, so is your heart.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; but the dose makes it clear that a thing is not a poison.”
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“Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.”
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“Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.”
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“Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body.Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should become angels and not devils, that’s why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What else is the help of medicine than love?”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.”
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“What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source