Paracelsus
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.Collection: Dreams
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.Collection: Dreams
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.Collection: Nature
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.Collection: Science
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.Collection: Dreams
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.Collection: Alone
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Dreams
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
The dose makes the poison.
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.
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.
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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.
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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.
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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.
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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?
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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?
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.Collection: Medicine
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.Collection: Healing
The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.Collection: Doctors
He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.Collection: Fruit
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.Collection: Life
I am different. Let this not upset youCollection: Upset
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.Collection: Law
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.Collection: Fasting
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosageCollection: Wine
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.Collection: Cancer
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.Collection: Art
There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.Collection: Spiritual
The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.Collection: Animal
Be not another, if you can be yourself.Collection: Being Yourself
Man is ill because he is never still.Collection: Men
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.Collection: Spiritual
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.Collection: Heaven
All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Book