Paracelsus Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.”

“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.”

“Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.”

“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.”

“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.”