Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Paracelsus, born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss German philosopher, physician, botanist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is credited as the founder of toxicology. He is also a famous revolutionary for utilizing observations of nature, rather than referring to ancient texts, something of radical defiance during his time. He is credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 November 1493
CountrySwitzerland
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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.
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage
Man is ill because he is never still.
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.
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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?
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.