Paracelsus (1493 – 1541)
Alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist.
All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.
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?
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it ... 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.
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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.
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
So I have been a wanderer all my life, alone and a stranger feeling alien.
Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
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.
What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.