Top 30 Quotes by Paracelsus

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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.

The dose makes the poison.

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?