Paracelsus Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”