Quotes by Paracelsus (Paracelse), page 2

Paracelsus (Paracelse) - swiss scientist

Also known as: Paracelse.

Also called: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.

Was born on 11 nov 1493.
Died on 24 sep 1541, at 47 years old.

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.

Quote by Paracelsus about dream, god, nothing

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Quote by Paracelsus about dream, art, magic

The patient who pins his hope on the medicament is not a Christian, but he who puts his hope in God is a Christian.

Quote by Paracelsus about religion, hope, god

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

Quote by Paracelsus about science

Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

Quote by Paracelsus about god, spirit, good, good luck

Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art

Quote by Paracelsus about imagination, art, magic, work

Therefore we should keep an eye on the outward characteristics which nature gives a man by shaping him in a certain way.

Quote by Paracelsus about nature, man

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan, he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Quote by Paracelsus about opinion, medicine

This means that each country, in addition to the general properties common to the whole world, also has its own specific properties.

Quote by Paracelsus about country, common sense, world

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Quote by Paracelsus about creation, art

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.

Quote by Paracelsus about real estate, things, time

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.

Quote by Paracelsus about science, origin, common sense, sense

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

Quote by Paracelsus about eyes